… trained by OpenAI themselves – that still doesn't work for me as a success story for a non-AI lab team fine tuning an LLM to solve a specific problem
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Codex to GPT: Code Model Evolution Explained
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Not as far as I know – originally it was powered by Codex, a code specialized model released by OpenAI, then later it switched to other off-the-shelf GPTs
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Fine-tuning commercial : où sont les success stories ?
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It may be demonstrated in academic papers, but where are the commercial success stories? I want to hear from companies that used fine tuning to solve the kinds of problems I face in my own work I've been trying to find convincing stories around this for a couple of years now
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Fine-tuning adoption challenges lack compelling success stories
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I think a bigger problem is the almost complete lack of fine tuning success stories – it's still really hard to find convincing stories of teams that used fine tuning for anything more interesting than "we got a cheap model to classify things slightly better"
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Questionable Analogies for LLMs: Why They Matter
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Hence why "I love collecting questionable analogies for LLMs" In my experience it's rare to encounter an analogy that isn't easily argued against I still like them if they highlight any interesting characteristic of the thing they are describing…or if they make me smile
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Claude Code Sub-Agents Architecture with Haiku Model
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Claude Code uses sub-agents, some of which use Haiku for operations that benefit from a cheaper, faster model. That's not new, they've done that since the start. Here's a trace I captured on June 2nd https://
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GitHub’s Shift to SPAs: A Decade-Long Departure
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I'm particularly annoyed because for about a decade GitHub was my favorite example of how great a site could be that had NOT gone all in on SPAs
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React Rewrite Causes Safari Performance Issues in SPA
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The performance issues in Safari are definitely a result of the React rewrite (The blame is more on the switch to being more of an SPA, but React very much encourages that)
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GitHub Rails Architecture Despite React Implementation
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GitHub still uses Rails under the hood so I don't think the React work has saved them much on that front
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GitHub’s React Rewrite: Performance Trade-offs Spark Developer Concern
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I'm sad that the "let's rewrite GitHub in React" lobby finally won out, it used to be SO performant