Small Models, Sharp Jobs
Small models get interesting when the assignment is narrow enough to grade and useful enough to repeat.
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Small models get interesting when the assignment is narrow enough to grade and useful enough to repeat.
The real appeal of local models is not the airplane-mode demo. It is cheap, private, repeatable work close to the source.
Three crashes, two NaN catastrophes, and one breakthrough: fine-tuning a 33B model on Mac Studio to learn my coding patterns. Real configs, real mistakes, real lessons.