Fix a Slow Local Model Before Blaming the Model

Diagnose and fix a latency problem that has nothing to do with model quality.

A beginner AI Engineering challenge worth 3 points. Solve it hands-on in a real AI Engineering environment in your browser - no local setup, no fake shells.

The Challenge

Scenario: A wrapper script repeats its own prompt 200 times, reserves a 32K context window it never needs, and disables streaming entirely - then someone blames the model for being "slow."

Configure a right-sized 2K context, send one prompt copy instead of two hundred, re-enable streaming, and benchmark real time-to-first-token against the preloaded model to prove the fix. Run check.