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Local LLMs & Ollama

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From goal to measurement to ship-or-abort for local LLMs on the offline clinical note assistant.

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Goal: improve the offline clinical note assistant using local LLMs without breaking protected slices.

Mechanism reminder for local LLMs: Download/quantize weights, serve with a local runtime, apply same prompt/tool patterns, monitor CPU/GPU RAM, and handle updates yourself.

Baseline and shock: A 7B 4-bit model may fit in ~5–6 GB RAM yet lose accuracy on rare clinical abbreviations—measure on your notes, not only tokens/sec.

Tradeoff in play for local LLMs: Locality helps privacy and offline use and shifts patching, capacity, and quality risk onto you. Stronger quantization saves RAM and can hurt medical nuance.

Ship decision: Allow local 7B 4-bit only if gold suite severe misses≤baseline and no telemetry of note text is confirmed.

Rollback triggers for local LLMs must cite PHI exfil test pass, note rubric vs cloud baseline, tokens/sec, crash rate, patch lag. If you cannot name a tolerated regression on the offline clinical note assistant, do not promote the change.

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Make it operational

Keep the local LLMs decision record beside the offline clinical note assistant code paths that implement it. Future you will not remember why a default exists unless the evidence is linked from the config for local LLMs.

Also pin one numeric memory from this local LLMs chapter: A 7B 4-bit model may fit in ~5–6 GB RAM yet lose accuracy on rare clinical abbreviations—measure on your notes, not only tokens/sec. That number is not decoration; it is a template for how claims about local LLMs on the offline clinical note assistant should look in design docs. Scoped specifically to local LLMs / offline clinical note assistant / worked-trace.

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Common mix-ups

People confuse local LLMs with neighboring buzzwords when debugging the offline clinical note assistant. Before changing prompts, ask whether the broken stage was evidence gathering, the local LLMs judgment itself, validation, or the product action. Fixing the wrong stage creates folklore (“we tried local LLMs and it failed”) that blocks the next team on the offline clinical note assistant. Scoped specifically to local LLMs / offline clinical note assistant / worked-trace.

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Rehearsal (local-llms/worked-trace)

Write a five-line artifact for this page: goal, inputs, check, owner, stop rule. Invent one fluent failure that the check would catch. Keep details specific to local llms rather than generic AI advice.

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Rehearsal (local-llms/worked-trace)

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