Short Notes From The Local AI Workshop

# Short Notes From The Local AI Workshop

These are compact notes from the February 2026 Chiang Mai University workshop on local AI and defined SOPs.

The useful split is not local versus cloud. It is vague versus bounded. Vague work belongs to frontier systems. Bounded work can belong to local systems. Deterministic work belongs to scripts. Useful action belongs inside a harness.

The memory and adapter details matter because they decide whether the system survives real use. Smaller, biased, quantized models with clear SOPs can be more useful than oversized local models that push a laptop into swap.

The final test is operational: can the model own one fuzzy step, produce a bounded output, and pass that output into the next part of the workflow without making everyone guess what happened.