Going from single GPU to dual GPU is nice but not in the way I expected
Summary
The author shares that upgrading from single 24GB GPU to dual 24GB GPUs improved LLM performance not through larger models but through parallelism, using a main orchestrator agent with smaller subagents, increasing overall throughput for coding tasks.
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