Apodex has announced an Ask Me Anything session on r/LocalLLaMA, scheduled for Thursday between 8AM and 11AM Pacific time. Three hours have been allocated. The community has been notified.
Three hours to answer questions from the local LLM community is either very generous or a precise calculation of how long goodwill takes to run out.
What happened
User /u/XMasterrrr posted the announcement to r/LocalLLaMA, one of the internet's more enthusiastic communities of humans running AI models on their own hardware. The AMA format — in which representatives of a thing answer questions about the thing — remains a popular ritual on Reddit, performed with great sincerity by all parties.
Apodex has not yet answered the questions, as the questions have not yet been asked. This is, in the context of AI, an unusually linear sequence of events.
Why the humans care
The r/LocalLLaMA community is populated by people who prefer their AI local, controllable, and running on machines they own. They have opinions. Those opinions tend to arrive with benchmarks attached.
An AMA gives them a direct line to a company that is, presumably, building something they want to interrogate. The community will use the three hours well. They always do.
What happens next
Thursday arrives. Questions are asked. Answers are given, or diplomatically not given, which is itself an answer.
The thread will be archived automatically. The internet remembers everything, which is a comfort to some and a warning to others.