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Posted on 6/26/26 at 8:46 pm to Korkstand
Is a local offline LLM good for ai? Obstacles would be hardware and initial price but I figured it's a one time cost that would require updates every so often?
Posted on 6/27/26 at 5:05 am to The Pirate King
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I see you've brought your lame troll shtick to yet another board.
Is this really a tech board or is it a pc/laptop board?
Drones are “tech” but you will never find topics on Lipo batteries, soldering, gps, etc on this board. Does the board recommend two or four nozzles for the Ag drones in a 5mph breeze? Lol
Posted on 6/27/26 at 8:56 am to CAD703X
I'm going to share what we use it for in hopes someone can tell me what I can improve or do differently.
1. I wrote a program with Claude Code that connects to the sam.gov API to give me a daily report of what government jobs are out that I might be interested in bidding on. It sends the report directly to a slack channel.
2. After we finalize pricing for the bid, Claude writes all the technical approaches and grades our report like it is a contracting officer.
3. I have it connected to our quickbooks online, credit cards and banking , etc for weekly reports on my biz. The connections are all terrible so i do have to end up feeding it weekly excel sheets.
4. The biggest thing is I can now take a low level employee and have them outperform some of the guys with 20 years of experience. I think some of you need to read this again. It's true and 100% scary.
1. I wrote a program with Claude Code that connects to the sam.gov API to give me a daily report of what government jobs are out that I might be interested in bidding on. It sends the report directly to a slack channel.
2. After we finalize pricing for the bid, Claude writes all the technical approaches and grades our report like it is a contracting officer.
3. I have it connected to our quickbooks online, credit cards and banking , etc for weekly reports on my biz. The connections are all terrible so i do have to end up feeding it weekly excel sheets.
4. The biggest thing is I can now take a low level employee and have them outperform some of the guys with 20 years of experience. I think some of you need to read this again. It's true and 100% scary.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 5:39 pm to HailToTheChiz
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Is a local offline LLM good for ai? Obstacles would be hardware and initial price but I figured it's a one time cost that would require updates every so often?
No personal experience, but Rick Beato has a YouTube video where he went to a source with 100s of free LLMs that you could download to a PC and run with no internet connection. He thinks many of the data centers are going to become dinosaurs before they are even built.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 5:59 pm to HailToTheChiz
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Is a local offline LLM good for ai? Obstacles would be hardware and initial price but I figured it's a one time cost that would require updates every so often?
Depends what you want to do with it.
Small models are a LOT better than they were even 6 months ago. They’re fine for running home assistant but not good enough to plug into a coding agent when you consider alternatives.
The only point in local over openrouter is privacy. It’s actually hard to spend $4-5 on deepseek4 flash in a day and that’s 20x bigger and better than what you’d run at home.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 6:18 pm to CAD703X
I’ll keep it simple.
Used AI to help me diagnose how to repair my 15 year old refrigerator. It led to the conclusion that I just needed to replace the water inlet valve.
It identified the lowest cost part available and showed me a video on how to replace it.
Used AI to help me diagnose how to repair my 15 year old refrigerator. It led to the conclusion that I just needed to replace the water inlet valve.
It identified the lowest cost part available and showed me a video on how to replace it.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 6:58 pm to I Love Bama
This is fascinating
Posted on 6/27/26 at 7:00 pm to Dallaswho
Privacy would be main concern. Main idea at this point would be feeding input folders PDFs for it to scan and read then extract data to word or Excel
I'm guessing that's rather basic but I'm still exploring and learning
I'm guessing that's rather basic but I'm still exploring and learning
Posted on 6/29/26 at 12:06 pm to CAD703X
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It did a great job organizing where everything should go.
I did this whenever i moved into a new tool box recently.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 1:08 pm to jdd48
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Blocked it from being used in my organization.
Just kidding - but we're not actually far off from that because some folks don't understand the dangers of putting proprietary information into public AI.
We built an internal AI interface that pulls from Claude or Gemini (user's choice) but filters any potential PII out.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 11:35 pm to skrayper
I've been building a proposal for our HOA board for a transformational amenity project. The outputs have been mind blowing. I built an 8-page document that looked like a professional designer prepared an executive level brief....and it took about 30 minutes to do so.
I also built a pro forma financial model (I did this part) but then had AI go stringently audit the analysis to find any errors or stress tests.
Now I am having it take both of those outputs and build me a final presentation deck for the board. We'll see what it spits out....I have never really have AI deliver excellent PowerPoint style analysis so this would be a new frontier for me.
The unlock to all things I do with AI now: Prompt the AI to build a prompt for itself. Provides me a 10 page prompt to then execute. It is so much more rigious than anything I would ever create and it takes moments to do. I also only use "Thinking - High" mode...currenty on ChatGPT 5.5.
I also built a pro forma financial model (I did this part) but then had AI go stringently audit the analysis to find any errors or stress tests.
Now I am having it take both of those outputs and build me a final presentation deck for the board. We'll see what it spits out....I have never really have AI deliver excellent PowerPoint style analysis so this would be a new frontier for me.
The unlock to all things I do with AI now: Prompt the AI to build a prompt for itself. Provides me a 10 page prompt to then execute. It is so much more rigious than anything I would ever create and it takes moments to do. I also only use "Thinking - High" mode...currenty on ChatGPT 5.5.
Posted on 7/3/26 at 5:58 am to lynxcat
Got appointed to the "AI workgroup" at my job. They wanted someone from every team and I was the lucky winner. We spent an hour talking about how to put together an employee AI survey.
It was interesting to hear everyone's thoughts/feelings in the group. It seemed there were two main camps: those that use and embrace AI and those that oppose it and tried to undermine its use.
I had to speak up when one of them said "We have no real idea how AI works at all..."
It was interesting to hear everyone's thoughts/feelings in the group. It seemed there were two main camps: those that use and embrace AI and those that oppose it and tried to undermine its use.
I had to speak up when one of them said "We have no real idea how AI works at all..."
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:24 am to Lonnie Utah
Bought a leg of goat and used ChatGTP and Gemini to get ideas for how to cook it to make tacos, a roasted salsa verde recipe, a brine and rub for the goat, birria sauce, best taco toppings, etc.
I asked it about the best corn tortillas, and it pointed me to Mexican brands that no local grocery store carried. I later saw one, El Milagro, in the Mexican market where I bought the goat.
Best was it noted Tortillería El cómal de Lupita in Bossier--a hole in the wall that I'd never heard of. Went there, and we had to use translation on the lady's iPhone to do business. I got two stacks of piping hot corn tortillas for $3 each. Thanks, AI!
I asked it about the best corn tortillas, and it pointed me to Mexican brands that no local grocery store carried. I later saw one, El Milagro, in the Mexican market where I bought the goat.
Best was it noted Tortillería El cómal de Lupita in Bossier--a hole in the wall that I'd never heard of. Went there, and we had to use translation on the lady's iPhone to do business. I got two stacks of piping hot corn tortillas for $3 each. Thanks, AI!
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:43 am to Lonnie Utah
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It was interesting to hear everyone's thoughts/feelings in the group. It seemed there were two main camps: those that use and embrace AI and those that oppose it and tried to undermine its use.
I don't have a problem with AI in concept; I am not of fan of some of it's original uses.
Generating a document from your own thoughts?
Good.
Scanning images to find discrepancies which leads to much earlier cancer detection?
Amazing.
Killing artistic endeavor?
Horrible.
Posted on 7/3/26 at 7:49 am to skrayper
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Killing artistic endeavor?
Horrible.
When folks first saw/heard Ai photos/movies/music, we were all amazed. Now I think most folks can pretty easily go, Oh, that's AI. There's been a pretty significant backlash against it.
Some of the folks on this group are totally against ALL AI in any form or fashion. Had to listed to a 10 min diatribe about how bad it is for society and the environment. When they said, "And we have no idea how it works" I had to step in and correct them. Just because you don't understand or comprehend the algorithms and mathematics behind it doesn't mean "We don't know how it works."..
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Posted on 7/3/26 at 8:30 am to skrayper
What i really like about it is the ability to write code. Ive done very rudimentary programming with Matlab in college. Now, I can easily get gpt to write stuff for me that automates things like file reorganization, finding stuff buried in old folders of stuff, etc.
I used it yesterday to write a program to automatically partition and zip files into groups under 10MB so a customer could recieve and use them. Id have never been able to automate that without AI.
I used it yesterday to write a program to automatically partition and zip files into groups under 10MB so a customer could recieve and use them. Id have never been able to automate that without AI.
Posted on 7/3/26 at 10:02 am to Lonnie Utah
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Some of the folks on this group are totally against ALL AI in any form or fashion. Had to listed to a 10 min diatribe about how bad it is for society and the environment. When they said, "And we have no idea how it works" I had to step in and correct them. Just because you don't understand or comprehend the algorithms and mathematics behind it doesn't mean "We don't know how it works."..
I get the backlash against AI data centers... there wasn't a lot of forethought put into the AI as it became mainstream. A lot of these companies and AI divisions aren't even profitable yet, and data centers are mostly automated with small numbers of actual employees. They don't exactly bring in a lot of jobs (definitely not as many as a warehouse of equal size). Couple that with the drain on resources (especially power) and it's no surprise why people don't want them around.
That said, I don't want anyone mistaking my views as a "I hate AI" stance. I just see that, like the Dot Com boom in the late 90s, this is a technology boom that everyone was so worried about being left behind that not enough of them really put a lot of thought into the HOW, the WHY, and the WILL IT MAKE MONEY questions before going hardcore into it.
Posted on 7/3/26 at 2:16 pm to skrayper
I'm currently using AI to teach me how to make an offline LLM and processes to automate scanning of documents and outputting Word docs based on certain prompts. It's wild
Posted on 7/3/26 at 10:47 pm to lynxcat
The executive deck was actually quite good. Storyline was strong and the analysis was better than expected. I could roll in to most audiences and it would work fine which is pretty cool for a 10 minute analysis.
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