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I Was Training the Model to Do the Wrong Job
Community description: I spent hours training a small local model before realizing I was asking it to do the wrong job. The...
Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | Jesse Gamble
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I had been training the model to do both. Then the base Qwen model also reached 24 out of 24. A local model might be cheaper, private or specialized. Fine-tuning might make the local model better at a particular task. It showed me that better representation could remove model work entirely, and that the remaining learned component might be small enough for a base model, a specialist model, a frontier model or some future mechanism depending on the actual requirement.
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