Just got my first real result from a local AI meetup demo

I went to this small AI meetup in Columbus last Tuesday, not expecting much honestly. Some guy showed off a tiny script that used an open source model to sort through his inbox and draft replies. I figured I'd try something similar for my flooring quotes, since I waste so much time typing out the same answer about glue down versus floating installs. Three days later I had a rough version running on my old laptop, and it already cut my estimate writing time from 20 minutes to about 5 per customer. The kicker is the model flagged a measurement mistake I kept making on L-shaped rooms, which I never caught before. Has anyone else found that tinkering with these local models beats the big cloud tools for niche work stuff?

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evan_dixon6713d ago

That part about the model catching your measurement mistake on L-shaped rooms is wild, and honestly it makes total sense why it would spot that when you wouldn't. You feed it the same quote info over and over and it just sees the pattern in the numbers, while you're moving fast and trusting your gut. The fact that you got it running on an old laptop in three days for a job this specific says a lot. Big cloud tools try to do everything for everyone, so they end up being mid at stuff like this.

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