🧠 THIS IS A BRANDON WEEK!!! 🧠 Last week, we debated whether self-hosted inference could ever beat a commercial API, and the consensus was surprisingly clear! If you missed the deep dive into VLLM vs. GPT-6, you missed some serious insights on where the real value lies in AI deployment. 📞 HOW THE CALLS WORK The calls can run 2+ hours. We want to make sure we're respecting everyone's time. Especially those of you who actually show up. Here's the structure: 👉 Reply to this post with your questions before the call 👉 If you submit a question and you're on the call, you go first 👉 We work through questions in the order they came in 👉 Then we open it up for everyone else If you can't make the call but want your question answered, drop it in the comments. We'll get to it. But priority goes to people who are there. The goal is simple: if you're taking the time to show up, you shouldn't have to wait behind questions from people who aren't even on the call. We still have some fascinating threads open, from Andrew's forensic psychiatry AI work to the practical application of decision models. Daniel is also preparing to share his Canadian AI governance guide, and Patrick is continuing to document his T3/Hermes orchestration architecture. Come discuss these next steps! 🔗 ZOOM LINK (save this) https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81995207847?pwd=Xe6u6LmIQOmCP5VTnOwWYjDBfZNKGB.1 📅 WHEN Tuesday October 27th at 6PM ET Looking forward to seeing you on the call!

📝 SUMMARY This week's call packed a lot in: it opened with casual hardware talk that turned into a bigger observation about AI widening the gap between tech workers who adapt and those who don't, then moved through a wide range of member updates — Patrick Chouinard's company-wide Claude rollout and personal tooling projects, Juan Torres's photo booth business, Andrew Nanton's document-review and decision-model work, Paul Miller's productivity gains from pruning Claude skills, Ryan C's custom Android remote-management software, and Daniel Zivkovic's pivot toward AI governance work. The second half went deeper into technical and business debates, including whether self-hosted inference (VLLM/TensorRT LLM) can beat commercial APIs (a discussion where attendees largely converged on APIs rarely being beaten without a governance or scale justification), Canadian AI governance trends, advice on entering financial-industry contracting, project demos from Shakur Abdullah, a comparison of a code security/review tool against Greptile and CodeRabbit, and a closing segment on AI video-generation tooling for corporate training. Whether you're interested in enterprise AI adoption, infrastructure choices, governance, or hands-on tooling, there was something here — and the recording captures it all. 💡 KEY INSIGHTS Patrick Chouinard: people aren't replaced by AI directly, but by colleagues who adapted faster — those not keeping up are effectively "signing their name on the list" for future layoffs. Patrick Chouinard: just keeping up with the pace of AI field evolution is now filling people's schedules. Paul Miller suggested the surge of interest in his client's AI training courses may be partly driven by fear of job irrelevance rather than genuine learning interest; Patrick Chouinard agreed, noting a split between people building capability and people attending out of fear. Patrick Chouinard: data providers (e.g., Bloomberg) weren't ready for the AI "tidal wave" — restrictive data-usage contracts must now be rethought for MCP-based direct AI access.

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