No it's not! These are probably imposters anyway. Apparently, you can buy HN upvotes... I find it hard to believe that honest researchers from frontier labs would behave like crypto scammers.
At Asana we did not do any fine-tuning because it was too complicated even for our AI org of 40 engineers. We believe we can do it by setting up and cleaning data correctly.
There's a reason why you don't see frontier-grade AI researchers throwing around meaningless numbers to go with the most layman idea of a product in the field imaginable. The whole thing stinks. I reckon this is some kind of extortion scam intended to trick people into compromising IP.
I understand the concern but we don't need anyone's IP. Unfortunately, it is hard to provide fine-tuning solution without access to the codebase. We just think that using a large general-purpose model for a highly specific codebase with a lot of internal frameworks is not the best solution and want to try to improve it.