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Consumer hardware cannot sustain the thermal and mathematical volatility of local reasoning models.
Executing persistent reasoning and complex attention backends locally drives consumer GPUs to dangerous thermal limits while introducing logit variations that degrade model consistency.
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The Physics and Capabilities of Local Inference: Precision Divergence, Thermals, and Persistent Reasoning It describes the physical and mathematical limits of running local inference, where attention backend variations cause output inconsistencies and high workloads trigger dangerous thermal limits.
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The "Overthinking" Tax: Local Model Defaults and the Bloat of System Prompts It details how local reasoning models quickly exhaust consumer hardware through recursive thinking loops that consume massive amounts of context and processing time.