@no_stp_on_snek: fine-tuning field notes every model family formats its conversations differently, and those formatting rules quietly wr…
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A tweet warns that different AI model families have unique conversation formatting rules that silently corrupt training data, requiring developers to learn each family's quirks individually.
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every model family formats its conversations differently, and those formatting rules quietly wreck your training data without ever throwing an error. one silently drops the model’s earlier reasoning. one mangles which words it actually learns from. one hands back the wrong data type. there’s no universal “just format it and go.” you re-learn each family’s quirks from scratch.
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