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by dandinu 42 days ago
The method I used in the article is real and is pretty standard. Also, I do a decent amount of distillation and tinkering with weights for work, so I can assure you I did try that before resorting to good 'ol RAG.

Overall, even with a finetuning-as-a-serice like Tinker (the one from Thinking Machines) which is pretty cheap, the economics didn't work out that well.

Also, you probably one-shot this with Claude, I agree. But, you need to have an expensive Max subscription, which not everyone is willing to shell out 200 bucks for, just to have some weekend fun.