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May 21, 2026

There’s a pattern described here (prototype big, ship small) that’s valuable. It’s obvious as soon as you read it and you recognise the pattern in your own work. Like all great patterns I guess. The approach to finding “Small and Good Enough” models here is also sound. Again obvious once you’ve read it perhaps but its easy to be do the same work far less efficiently by following a slightly different order of execution.

How to use evals and prompt engineering to ship a local model that matches frontier performance
 
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