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LLMs on Consumer Hardware — Part 6: The Orchestration Ceiling — Why a Bigger Coordinator Doesn't Fix the Loop
Community description: The sixth entry in a build-log series on local LLMs. With the large coordinator finally running, the question was whether a bigger model fixes orchestration. It does not — the ceiling is a property of the agentic loop, not of model size — and the durable fix was to take the loop away from the model entirely.
Dev.to | Oct 18, 2026 | Sven Welack
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Previously: Part 5 — Distributing the Workers and the Memory Budget. That made it possible to answer a question Part 4 had deferred: now that the big model can actually run, does a bigger coordinator fix orchestration? The resolution was deterministic orchestration: a small script owns the control loop.
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