Stop Blaming Quantization. Your Local LLM Isn’t Dumb, Your Metadata Is.
You spent thousands on a GPU, downloaded a massive local LLM, and it writes like a toddler. We always blame quantization, but the real culprit is a silent failure in your GGUF metadata. When the chat template gets dropped, the runtime falls back to generic formatting, starving the model of context. The intelligence is there. You’re just feeding it garbage.