# Compile after the picture is true

- Category: product
- Author: Titus Nicolae (https://indie.md/people/titus-nicolae/)
- Source: https://indie.md/journeys/titus-hausjam/
- Canonical URL: https://indie.md/advice/truth-before-torch-compile/

The HausJam speed toolkit is the current fashion, quantization, Torch.compile, a model small enough to live in 4 to 8 GB, and Titus still refuses to lead with it. Twenty seconds to clean a room is annoying. A fast room that sells the wrong sofa is a refund and a screenshot on someone else's Slack. The same ordering applies to any generative consumer tool: pick the quality bar that makes the output a decision, then spend the engineering on latency. Hardware targets, including unfashionable integrated GPUs, belong in that second pass, not as an excuse to ship a blurry world. Users will wait a few seconds for a room they trust. They will not wait at all for a room they have already learned to doubt.