Learn how to use Pytorch.
Also learn how to navigate the Hugging Face site. I now have a model running locally on my MacBook, using LM Studio. It’s probably good enough for 80% of the tasks I need AI for. I also have a Claude Pro account for the ‘heavy lifting’, but by offloading other tasks to my local machine, it saves tokens.
Become a “prompt engineer.”
That one just cracks me up.