[🏫 In-Person] Playing With AI Locally with Paul Michaels
Details
This event will be a single talk on Playing With AI Locally with Paul Michaels
⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is Goodlords Offices at Ratoon, 33-35 Fargate, Sheffield.
- Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7BigFQzWAbBXbRUW6
- ** Parking**: The APCOA car park on Eyre Street is a five-minute walk.
Agenda:
- Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
- Introduction (18:30)
- Playing With AI Locally (18:35ish)
- Social @ Pub (after the talk)
Playing With AI Locally
In this session, we’ll step back from hype and explore what’s really happening when you run a language model locally. We’ll look at how modern LLM runtimes expose simple HTTP endpoints, what “tokens in, tokens out” actually means, and why interacting with a model from C# is far less mysterious than it sounds.
From there, we’ll examine the architectural shift from “chatbot” to system component. What is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server? Why would you build one? And how can a language model act as a decision engine that selects structured tools while your .NET application remains firmly in control?