A Chatbot on your Laptop: Phi-2 on Intel Meteor Lake

running phi-2 locally on consumer hardware like intel meteor lake is cool for demos, but don't confuse a laptop run with production capability. it's great for prototyping, but deploying an LLM for actual business use—dealing with context window management, prompt engineering consistency, and reliable API integration—is a whole different beast. the bottleneck isn't the silicon anymore; it's the infrastructure needed to serve those models reliably across multiple users.