David Flickinger

AI Executive | Former Med Device Executive | Ex-Marine Infantry Officer | Practical AI deployment | AI in Healthcare since 2017

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

Your best answers often already exist in old proposals, project folders, inboxes, and a couple people's heads. Vellm Lite is one agent connected to all of it. You own it, we run it.

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

@JankDankins_ @Teknium @NousResearch We can set this up for you, but you should have strong justification and a budget. Can def compliment AR models in Hermes framework, but personally if you cannot setup + manage this yourself I wouldn’t recommend unless clear business need. Can get weird!

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

@BoringBiz_ Must have an architecture that outsources coding tasks to extremely low cost open-source agents. Very rarely does your code require that Opus 4.8 writes it.

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

@Teknium The problem is they’re all good updates😅…so I actually do have to set my alarm!

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

Wow…

“Only 42% of IT teams know who owns the agent”

Issue isn’t AI adoption (everyone is doing it). Issue is governance, ownership, and operational control.

If you don’t know the answer to all these your AI strategy could be a liability.

https://t.co/gYXSyaJwmW

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

@PrivatEquityGuy 💯 I’ve seen this play out first hand. They know they can crush it given the opportunity. Of course there’s exceptions, but I like to bet on these guys more often than not!

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

@iamlukethedev Yup! @Teknium is the man! 👊

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

@droidbuilds Only if you have the max plans on all of them

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

Once again, open source cannot be an afterthought!

Every company building AI into real operations needs an architecture that can swap models when access, pricing, policy, or risk changes. https://t.co/dtygz82q97

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

@woodtechwill @PrivatEquityGuy curious if you've tried any good ones @woodtechwill ?...only off-the-shelf one I've heard good things about is CloudNC. No affiliation but might worth checking out.

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

@woodtechwill @PrivatEquityGuy Yes, huge opportunity...There's a handful of open source projects we're following...agents take a STEP file, match against your actual tooling, and give you a yes, no, conditional feasibility report...running locally to protect IP. Lots of projects to watch here in '26-'27!

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

@VB1420212125641 @PrivatEquityGuy Agents are able to connect to almost anything that touches the web. Great opportunity for anyone to learn via this graphic (ai just made😅). At minimum all our setups have some combo of these 4 to access external systems (like supplier pricing) or internal systems of record.

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

@PadraicMcC @PrivatEquityGuy @stuartawillson Thanks @PadraicMcC! stuartawillson nice to connect! would be great to chat

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

@ole_dening @PrivatEquityGuy That's awesome! Love that you built something YOU own instead of outsourcing your key business logic. Curious, are you finding it easier to add/connect new workflows now that the foundation's there, or was this more of a one-off build?

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

@lulumeservey Agreed! Tweets replies and important emails get the full human treatment.

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

The AI opportunity for SMBs is not replacing people.

It's capturing the judgement of the best people before it disappears into Slack threads, inboxes, spreadsheets, and retirement.

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

Satya is 💯 right, and clear that if you don’t implement this, you’re going to get outcompeted away quickly by your competition that does!

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

The US government just forced Anthropic to abruptly shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer worldwide.

If it wasn’t obvious before, it should be now:

Tying your business’s AI capabilities to an enterprise plan at Anthropic, OpenAI, or any single provider is no longer a value driver…it’s a concentrated risk that sophisticated buyers will explicitly discount!

Without owning your infrastructure, controlling your data, and retaining the ability to switch models fluidly, you’re not building a moat. You’re creating a dependency that acquirers will price in as a liability, NOT reward with a premium.

The “we have an enterprise Claude account and that’s our AI strategy” approach just got exposed in real time.

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

This is your wakeup call.

Anthropic just took down Fable 5. It's over.

Here's the thing tho: no company or government will EVER be able to take away your local models.

There are Opus level models you can run right now on your home GPUs, and nobody can ever stop you from using them

This is only the beginning of events like this. Day 1. More government overreach will happen. This will only keep happening more and more as models get closer to AGI

Become sovereign. Buy your own compute. Before even that becomes illegal

[David Flickinger @DWFlickinger]

AI cost structure is going to become a major value-creation lever.

A lot of companies rushed into expensive model stacks (Mythos/Fable bills going to shock).

The next wave is optimizing for “good enough + secure + 10x cheaper.”

Margin expansion hiding in plain sight.