If your local-Ollama agent has been getting quietly worse for no obvious reason — same model, same hardware, same prompts — there's a good chance you're hitting an invisible ceiling that produces no error, no warning, and no log line. Just an empty response where an answer used to be. I want to walk through how this manifests, why it's specifically painful for autonomous agent workloads (not chat)
Some time ago, I was building a chat application using AWS Websocket API gateway. Things were going smoothly. I created a WebSocket API Gateway, added $connect, $disconnect, and sendMessage/addGroup routes. From the frontend (React) side, everything was fire-and-forget. You send a message, and the onMessageHandler takes care of it 💪🏼 But then a new requirement of uploading files using S3 signed