I went through the journey of fine-tuning two small LLMs: Llama 3.1-8B-Instruct and GPT-3.5-Turbo on a fun dataset of GPT-4o generated conversations in the style of Larry David. All the code for this project and evaluation results are openly accessible.

I built AI Dialer, a full stack Python app for interruptible and near-human quality AI phone calls by stitching LLMs, speech understanding tools, text-to-speech models, and Twilio’s phone API. This post describes the process for building this project as well as challenges and opportunities discovered in the process.

I have been writing for most of my life. I recently realized that most of my professional writings are owned by and hidden behind the corporations where I have worked at through my career. And as for my personal writings, they have become buried in numerous social media accounts and mostly inaccessible given the sheer volume of noise in these systems. While this is not my first attempt at blogging – I used to write blogs since the early 2000s – it is my most conscious attempt to date.