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The Mission This blog documents my hands-on exploration of Specialized Language Models (SLMs)—the hypothesis that smaller, domain-focused AI models can outperform general-purpose giants on specific tasks. Since September 2025, I’ve been building, fine-tuning, and testing this thesis with real applications: Project What I Learned ChefBot A cooking AI that coordinates multi-dish meal prep—specialists excel at domain knowledge Executive Assistant An AI trained on 5+ years of my management notes—data quality trumps model size 3-LLM Toggle Balancing cloud, local, and GPU inference—flexibility beats optimization Multi-Model Collaboration Two AIs pair programming—specialists need generalists, and vice versa Every experiment runs on my RTX 5090 workstation, with findings documented here for others walking a similar path. ...