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The Model Is the Easy Part
Community description: We spent the past few months on a question that sounds simple: what does it actually take to move a...
Dev.to | Oct 14, 2026 | Steven Latre
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We ran a fixed set of real software engineering tasks across a range of open-weight models, each paired with hardware capable of serving it properly, and varied the agent harness on top. Then we measured what came out: tasks resolved, time taken, users served in parallel. Same model, same hardware, same tasks resolved, and wall time differing by a factor of two depending on the pairing.
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