Training & Adaptation Strategy

1. What approaches exist for training or adapting an LLM? — Pretraining, fine-tuning, instruction tuning, prompt engineering, RAG.

2. Base model vs instruction-tuned model? — Pure next-token predictor vs one aligned to follow instructions.

3. When would you choose fine-tuning over RAG? — Stable domain knowledge, style/format control, latency sensitivity.

4. When would …

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The 30 Concepts

1. The Terminal — Claude Code doesn't …