No Stupid Questions

I’m not a coder… but I’m somewhat code literate. I can follow logical structures and understand flow control and conditional loops… I am, however not proficient in coding. Any skills I may develop over a period of intense work are lost as soon as I move on from the project I learned them for. It was time consuming, laborious, and left me completely spent at the end of my work day.

LLMs provide me with a way to generate code to automate small analysis projects. Hand jamming the data would take (almost) literally forever, and automating it always seems like more work than it’s worth. LLMs give me a way to make functional code quickly and efficiently… my work doesn’t require enough coding work to develop proficiency but has always been a tool.

In my personal life, it’s enabled me to tinker with my home computing setup in ways I never would have been able to. I’ve fucked with AI image generation in ComfyUI, and have dicked around with hosting LLMs locally… I even set up a way for me to interface with a locally hosted LLM remotely from my cell phone… I did all of this using Claude AI walking me through setup and everything.

My next project is to setup a local LLM for personal financial management. The LLM will work to automate categorization of transactions and will feed it into a Python Panel setup to track spending and aid long term planning.

https://padulaguruge.medium.com/analyzing-personal-finances-locally-with-ai-using-llms-and-python-panel-for-secure-expense-eb0f3831517c