Proposal: A community revolution for private quality benchmarks (and why endless chasing tok/s is rotting our brains
Summary
A community proposal in r/LocalLLaMA urging members to stop fixating on tok/s speed metrics and instead create private quality benchmarks, especially to evaluate model quality across quantisation levels, and to share results with each other.
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