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When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide

created: May 29, 2025, 7:39 p.m. | updated: June 2, 2025, 12:52 p.m.

Fine-tuning excels in specific quality areas:Task-Specific Quality ScoreMost products have an overall quality metric—often a 1-5 star rating. Fine-tuning for Shorter PromptsPrompts grow quickly as you add details needed to perform a task (task description, style guides, rules, formatting, chain-of-thought instructions, etc). Fine-tuning can create smaller models that run locally while maintaining the same quality metrics for a given task. Choosing Models to Fine-TuneSelect your goals from the list above, as these will guide which models you try fine-tuning. Use Kiln: The Easiest Fine-Tuning ToolKiln is a free app which makes it easy to fine-tune models.

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