i went a completely different route in life. i always knew i wanted a large family. and i hate being a slave. I didn't go to college. I built businesses. i spent my entire 20 and early 30's working 18 hour days literally working myself to the point of exhaustion and was getting ulcers by the time i retired at 35. instead of having nice things, going out to eat, partying. i saved like my freedom depended on it. and it did. married when i was 26. told my wife we would be living like popper until i achieved my goals. she bought in(not literally, believed in the vision) and we worked our tails of. I'm now 39 we are having our 6th and i spend 99% of my time with my family. i work in between farm chores and running the kids back and forth between events. we homeschool so i get to be very involved with their education. the thing i realized that made me go this direction is the world demands one or the other. you cant have a truly successful career and a truly be a successful family man(at least not by my measure of success, everyone has a different measure so this may not be true for you). the only men a saw that had a semblance of that where business owners. so i set my goals high and was militant to the point of not caring about how others felt. i knew i needed to be functionally retired by my mid 30s so i could focus on the kids my wife was having. what you focus on the longest becomes the strongest in your life. from my prospective, many people will tell you you can have it all. they are either ignorant or lying. you need to pick your focus. if your kids are young. set money goals. think about how much you need in savings(properly managed so the interest can help cover bills and your backup funds are more then sufficient) by the time the kids are 10 to be able to back off of work and focus more on them. and then commit. you have to sacrifice now to have later. then when your kids are 10 you back off of your career and start pouring into the kids more until they are grown. you will have more time when they are grown to worry about work. work will never go away. your kids will. I am fortunate that God put the right people in my life early on to be able to clearly see what the world was and figure out what i wanted. i just made a plan and executed. you said you have 3 things. but it seems you can only do 2. then pick family and your finance job and let the hobbies be your family. we didn't have a Sunday farmers market in my area so i started one and my kids help run it. thats a hobby. I'm loosing money on it. but i want my kids to have the experience of building business. i want them to see what it take for their mother and i to build a market and community. keeping your kids involved in what you are doing gives them the life experience that vital to help them grow into resilient adults. I don't know if any of this is helpful to you. we have very different lives. I'm just trying to outline my mindset. i hope it helps.

@Allan Durhuus i don't not look down on you at all. you already have what many men dream of. very very few people are in any sort of position to look down on you, and the few who are in that position understand and have zero judgment. I hope my post didn't come of as judgy. that was not my intention.

the whole point of the file based workflow in to be model agnostic. this works with local models too. :D

I genuinely have no idea who that is. lol. But I'll watch it!

@Jake Van Clief fascinating. that would be dope if you could get someone on that level interfacing with the community.

Writing code has always been a part of my hobbies. so yes, and its made my hobbie's more fun! lol.

As someone who trains LLM's. I can tell you with absolute certainty. These models don't feel. They mirror emotions based on what route through the training data you bring them through. They are very good next token generators. How you interact with it as well as what it is trained on effect behavior.