Hey everyone
I’m looking for a mentor who has strong practical experience building real LLM/AI systems (not someone who is still figuring things out from scratch together with me).
Before talking about calls or format, I’d like to check if your experience matches what I’m actually trying to learn. Stuff I care about specifically:
• Using OpenAI / Claude / other LLM APIs in production (prompt design, tool/function calling, streaming, rate limits, logging/monitoring, etc.)
• Quickly wiring up different model providers via API and switching between them
• Fine-tuning models: preparing data, training, evaluating, deploying
• Building “benchmark-style” pipelines:
– model generates 30–50+ questions from a document or dataset
– we run those questions in parallel via API
– we aggregate and analyze the answers by topic
• Designing multi-step SOP-style workflows (4–6 LLM passes where models cross-check, critique and refine each other’s answers)
• Embedding AI into complex business workflows to save serious time for founders/CEOs (automation, decision support, ops, etc.)
• Teaching the programming basics needed for all this (mainly Python) and using AI coding assistants effectively
My goal is to get to the level where I can design and build serious AI products that could actually scale and become “must-have” tools, not just side projects.
So my question is - based on this, do you feel you:
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have real hands-on experience with most of this, and
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could noticeably accelerate my learning with your skills (rather than learning these topics alongside me)?
If yes, I’d really appreciate if you could share:
• 1–2 examples of LLM/AI systems you’ve built recently
• which models/APIs you actively use today
Not asking to schedule a call yet - just want to see if we’re a good match in terms of expertise and expectations. Happy to compensate you for your time. We’re ready to invest significantly in learning the best and newest approaches.
Thanks a lot
Fidiy