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LLMs and NLP · Advanced · 5 h

Prompting, retrieval or fine-tuning

Decide how to adapt a model to a task with evidence, starting from the cheapest option that meets the bar.

Why employers care: Senior AI engineers are judged on choosing the right approach for cost, quality and maintenance, not on using the fanciest one.

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Lessons, in order

  1. Prompting, retrieval or fine-tuning?A decision guide backed by an experiment: how much labelled data does a small model need to be useful?3 min