Objectives

Our (rough) Agenda:

What is an LLM, anyway?

What is an inference engine?

What's with all the API keys?

What if I just want to ask some questions?

How does it look around and do stuff?

Wait you can run a whole platoon of them?

Summary

Credentials

Who is this guy?

Architect, Engineering Manager/Leader, "force multiplier"

http://www.newardassociates.com

http://blogs.newardassociates.com

Books

Developer Relations Activity Patterns (w/Woodruff, et al; APress, 2026)

Professional F# 2.0 (w/Erickson, et al; Wrox, 2010)

Effective Enterprise Java (Addison-Wesley, 2004)

SSCLI Essentials (w/Stutz, et al; OReilly, 2003)

Server-Based Java Programming (Manning, 2000)