Aravind Mohanoor

I used to look like this back
when I had more hair
on my head 🙂

I am an LLM consultant with a graduate degree in Computer Science from the US and over 5 years of experience in the corporate sector (also in the US). I am the Owner/Founder of the BotFo website.

I can help you (or your organization) get more out of your AI investment in three ways

if you are just getting started and want to learn about agentic AI, I teach a course about it using Notion
if you want to use an LLM API directly, I teach a course on how to maximize your LLM investment
if you need direct help, I also offer consulting if there is a good match

I reside in Chennai, India.

Why I don’t offer Dialogflow consulting any more

Some people might remember that I used to offer courses and consulting for Dialogflow chatbots.

In fact, even after ChatGPT entered the picture, I was still trying to “prove” that Dialogflow was better in many ways – in my defense, in 2023 this was still true 🙂

But somewhere around mid-2024, ChatGPT and other competing LLMs started improving dramatically and I decided to stop working with Dialogflow and start using LLMs instead.

It certainly did not help that Dialogflow CX became very disjointed and hard to use (especially for non-programmers) when Google tried to force fit Generative AI into Dialogflow CX

I think AI is overhyped

I do recommend people use AI and LLMs to solve their business problems, but I also think AI is quite overhyped. These two statements are not in conflict at all.

I don’t really think we are close to AGI.

In fact, the LLM flaws I have already uncovered in my writing and research tells me that even building reliable AI agents is going to be a pretty hard task. And I prefer to focus on the present 🙂