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Thought I had invented something cool that required sovereignty from an LLM webapp. Yup, I got caught up in Ai insanity.

Thought I could host Ai locally by building my product myself from scratch. But as reality set in, and I finally escaped the AI delusion, I now have a P8 that really is of no use to me that I can think of. I'm looking to the community for some guidance.

This is it: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/workstations/thinkstation-p-series/thinkstation-p8-workstation/len102s0017

Practical skills? I mean, I can work with tech, but I do not code or know a language. I'm an early old head who retired early. Last time I coded was Visual Basic. I developed what turned out to be a massive tech product in a Fortune 500 two decades ago, but I spent most of my life in sales because I wanted to get out of the office and I was good at explain the tech at the time.

I was hoping to see if I could supplement some income by using the power of this machine by maybe helping small businesses or something that would not be so full of corporate bullshit of which I've left behind. I don't want fiverr work. I was thinking my advantage is power of the machine, working locally, having vast business experience, and being discrete. Not a brand business with webpage but a person who works the sales process themselves and sells the services quietly.

I'm probably not going to learn a coding language now. It's 2026 so I could work with an LLM model to code light things, but I'd be more suitable to stacking existing tools to create a process. What kind of process? I don't know.

I know I can sell the P8, and I probably will, but these P8s are not cheap, and they have a demand. To me demand = opportunity. I want to think of things to use it to make me regular money over a one time payout.

Open to all ideas. Think in terms of one person, retired, pretty much hates LinkedIn life but did it for a long time, still has a little game left, would rather work with smaller local clients than the corporates. How can I help the small business owner identify and create efficiencies so they can get ahead? That kind of thing feels right but again, open to all ideas.

Thanks for reading. Sorry for the novel.

Thought I had invented something cool that required sovereignty from an LLM webapp. Yup, I got caught up in Ai insanity.

Thought I could host Ai locally by building my product myself from scratch. But as reality set in, and I finally escaped the AI delusion, I now have a P8 that really is of no use to me that I can think of. I'm looking to the community for some guidance.

This is it: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/workstations/thinkstation-p-series/thinkstation-p8-workstation/len102s0017

Practical skills? I mean, I can work with tech, but I do not code or know a language. I'm an early old head who retired early. Last time I coded was Visual Basic. I developed what turned out to be a massive tech product in a Fortune 500 two decades ago, but I spent most of my life in sales because I wanted to get out of the office and I was good at explain the tech at the time.

I was hoping to see if I could supplement some income by using the power of this machine by maybe helping small businesses or something that would not be so full of corporate bullshit of which I've left behind. I don't want fiverr work. I was thinking my advantage is power of the machine, working locally, having vast business experience, and being discrete. Not a brand business with webpage but a person who works the sales process themselves and sells the services quietly.

I'm probably not going to learn a coding language now. It's 2026 so I could work with an LLM model to code light things, but I'd be more suitable to stacking existing tools to create a process. What kind of process? I don't know.

I know I can sell the P8, and I probably will, but these P8s are not cheap, and they have a demand. To me demand = opportunity. I want to think of things to use it to make me regular money over a one time payout.

Open to all ideas. Think in terms of one person, retired, pretty much hates LinkedIn life but did it for a long time, still has a little game left, would rather work with smaller local clients than the corporates. How can I help the small business owner identify and create efficiencies so they can get ahead? That kind of thing feels right but again, open to all ideas.

Thanks for reading. Sorry for the novel.