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Stop Using LLMs for Everything: A Guide to Private Local LLMs

Generative AI is powerful, but it shouldn't be your hammer for every nail. This talk explores how to reclaim speed and precision by offloading specific tasks to specialized, local models. We will demonstrate how to combine the raw speed of ModernBERT and Isolation Forests with the reasoning capabilities of local LLMs and the eyes of computer vision. Walk away with a blueprint for building private, "air-gapped" agents that can see, analyze, and report in real-time.

Join us January 6, 2026 12:00 ET

  • The "Specialist" Stack

    How to architect a pipeline that offloads specific tasks to deterministic models—using ModernBERT for instant classification and Isolation Forests for statistical anomaly detection—to reduce hallucinations and improve accuracy.

  • Edge Economics

    Strategies for processing high-volume video and log data locally for near-zero cost, only engaging the "expensive" LLM reasoning layer when synthesis is required.

  • Live Blueprint

    A practical guide to orchestrating a multi-modal agent that can "see" (Vision), "detect" (ML), and "speak" (SLM) simultaneously on consumer-grade hardware without touching the cloud.

  • Mark Hinkle

    Host, Co-founder, All Things AI

  • Robert Thelen

    Chief LLM Wrangler, Llamafarm

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