Tagged: models

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June 28, 2026 · 3 min read

The small model was the right call and everyone knew it

Frontier models for frontier problems. For the other 80 percent of your pipeline, a small model at a fifth of the price is not a compromise, it is engineering.

#models#cost#architecture

October 20, 2025 · 4 min read

Fine-tuning is the last resort and that's a compliment

The decision tree for prompting, RAG and fine-tuning, in the order your wallet prefers. Most teams asking about fine-tuning need a better prompt and a dataset they don't have.

#fine-tuning#models#cost