In this episode Allan and Drew consult Tim Rohrbaugh, who has done quite a lot of research and work on the practical applications, deployment, use cases and limits of GenAI and LLM. Flavors and incarnations of AI - GenAI, Expert Systems, ML... Biomimicry and Allan's weird sea cucumber references Practical LLM deployment - Tim's maxims Offline or online?  Open or proprietary models? Precision, accuracy, asking the right questions in the first place Your smartest employee as your limiting factor Probabilistic vs. deterministic outcomes Hallucinations - not necessarily a negative term How long before we get the person out of the loop? The actual skills required to be a "GenAI engineer" Getting started at home - hardware and models Fabric AI and patterns It's a great show and you will most definitely learn a lot!  Thank you Tim, thank you, listeners!  Y'all be good now!