What we learned fine-tuning our own coding model on a $100 budget

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Every run now starts with a small gate file written before any metric is computed. For our latest run it said: Edits: the fine-tune must produce more byte-exact correct files than the starting checkpoint on our edit test set. Up to 3 tool calls with real tool errors fed back.

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