Brad Hutchings

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The best way to learn what I think you should know about AI and LLMs is to spend some time with me. We’ll make sure you can use the best tools effectively and privately. We’ll make sure you know what works well with LLMs. We’ll make sure you have a workable personal or business story for AI.

Would you like a fun and serious discussion about AI topics on your podcast? Drop me an email to book me.

LLMs Personal Session

In a Personal Session, we will get a private, local LLM running on your PC. I will show you how it can give you great answers. We’ll talk about good uses and bad uses of LLMs and try them locally.

(1) 2-hour session with you on a Zoom. $200.

LLMs Pro Day

For a Pro Day, we will get everyone on your team running a private, local LLM on their PCs. We will talk about how your team is using LLMs and pitfalls to watch out for. We’ll build some apps in your web browsers for useful LLM tasks.

(2) 3-hour sessions with your team on a Zoom. $1200.

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My private local LLMs run on:

  • Windows and Linux PCs with 16GB or more of RAM and a recent Intel i7, i9, or comparable CPU.
  • macOS with Apple M1 or later CPU and 16GB unified RAM.
  • Smaller models (e.g. 4B-ish and smaller) run on Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB RAM.

If you don’t have my LLMs installed, I will walk you through installing them as the first item of the call. Learn more here.

We will discuss how everything you see with LLMs is an illusion. That’s not a bad thing! You can understand how the illusions work and even perform them yourself. Once you’re comfortable approaching them this way, you can be confident that they won’t fool you. If you are a Penn & Teller fan, that’s the vibe with LLMs I want to create for you — appreciate the art of illusion!

We’ll talk about how you use ChatGPT or other cloud LLMs now, and how you can get as good results on your private, local LLM. They’re just not as annoyingly loquacious. You will see that there are many illusions you have to actively buy into to think that ChatGPT is somehow “better”. You will be surprised.

I have found with many of my clients that some activities they do or want to do with ChatGPT and other LLMs are not intellectually sound. I’ll point that out. I won’t judge you. I’ll just inform you and see if we can work together to find better problems for you to solve with LLMs.

I’ll disabuse you of any notion that prompt engineering matters. It arises because of the chat illusion and because public cloud systems have a guard rails responsibility. Your private local LLM is much less constrained and requires very little special prompt magic.

Pro Day customers, we will discuss your business’ AI efforts, and I’ll share my opinion. My super power is helping teams save face when they realize they overdid it with AI. We may not be able to fix a broken idea, but we can learn from it and look good doing that.

I am excited about LLMs and helping people become effective users of them. You may have other avenues you want to explore. You’re the customer buying my time, and I’m eager to explore those avenues too!

-Brad