My threshold for “does not need to be smaller” is “can this run on a Raspberry Pi”. This is a helpful benchmark for maximum likely useful optimization. A Pi ha

My threshold for “does not need to be smaller” is “can this run on a Raspberry Pi”. This is a helpful benchmark for maximum likely useful optimization. A Pi has 4 cores and 16GB of memory these days, so, running Qwen3 4B on a pi is pretty comfortable: https://leebutterman.com/2025/11/01/prompt-optimization-on-a-raspberry-pi.html https://leebutterman.com/2025/11/01/prompt-optimization-on-a...