Fine-Tuning a Model on 100 Hand-Edited Answers
Most coverage of personal fine-tuning leads with the same line: tens of thousands of examples, a rack of GPUs, a research team. That story is mostly wrong. For a stylistic fine-tune — changing tone, personality, and response structure — the numbers are comically small by comparison. This episode walks through the full pipeline: how many hand-edited prompt-response pairs you actually need (somewhere between 100 and 1,000, with the first hundred doing most of the work), where the initial drafts come from, how long training takes on a frontier model with Unsloth, and where the resulting weights…
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