My 8GB GPU shouldn't run flagship local LLMs, but this workflow makes it work anyway

Local LLM releases seem to keep getting bigger, and many of the ones people actually get excited about now need a lot more memory than my card has. That's great news if you've got a 24+ GB GPU. But for the rest of us it means sulking and scrolling past the announcements, or trying to hunt down a heavily quantized version, or loading it anyway and watching it struggle.