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Why does openai-whisper re-download the model every few transcriptions?

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30 May
Whisper.cpp is underwhelming

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi, I'm running whisper.cpp with the best model I could find (ggml-large-v3) but after about 20 min of transcription it hallucinates a sentence

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14 May
Anthropic merges consecutive same-role messages, OpenAI doesn't (+4 tokens), anyone token-counted this on open-weight models?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I build context/harness optimization tooling, so provider-side serialization quirks actually matter to me. If you're optimizing over prompts, you

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