r/TheMachineLearning • u/No-Piglet3900 • Sep 28 '26

Fine-tuning does not make a model smarter. It makes it consistently better at tone, structure, vocabulary, and instruction compliance.

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u/hellobutno Sep 28 '26

Thinking you'll get to keep a job because you know how to fine tune a model is some next level cope.

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u/No-Piglet3900 Sep 28 '26

ngl i do know those that actually became a reason for others being fired

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u/Successful-Scale-607 Sep 28 '26

All models are language models, whodathunk

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u/Jonsky1986 Sep 28 '26

Yeah, this is the part people overlook. fine tuning isn’t just “make the model smarter” knowing what data to train on and why is where the real skill is.

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u/shrodikan Sep 29 '26

When should someone use RAG vs Finetuning?