Daily OCR of math- and table-heavy PDFs into LaTeX-correct Markdown and Word, using Qwen vision models on llama.cpp instead of a smaller model that misreads numbers.
Start with your machine.
Capacity is the reported total for this setup. Multi-GPU and unified-memory layouts can behave differently.
A developer reports shipping seven projects with a custom harness and customized llama.cpp inference server.
A laptop workflow combines Qwen Flash Next, llama.cpp and a DeepSeek harness, using system memory and SSD-backed loading to make a MoE model practical on 12GB of VRAM.
A contractor whose clients forbid commercial providers from reading their source code runs unit tests and code reviews locally on a 3090, with a long-context llama.cpp setup.
A custom harness layers a written skill and an orchestrator agent that dispatches tasks to five subagents, each starting from a clean context with hard test gates.
Not vibe coding: a custom harness on a patched llama.cpp build has shipped seven real KMP projects.
A NUC12 with a 16GB Intel Arc A770M handles a 262K-context Qwen build entirely in VRAM, coding in the background while the owner does something else.