11TLTom LindgrenFine-tuning LLMs on your proprietary data is mostly theaterEveryone's suddenly fine-tuning GPT or Llama on their internal datasets like it's the magic bullet for domain-specific problems. I've watched three companies burn months and six figures on this. The m8h agoJ
40NONina OkaforCan someone explain when you'd actually fine-tune vs just prompt engineerI've been shipping RAG + prompt engineering for most of my LLM work and it's been fine. But everyone keeps saying "yeah you really need fine-tuning for production" and I genuinely don't get the tradeo1d ago
54CDChloe DumontCursor's autocomplete is training you to write worse codeStarted using Cursor last month after the hype got to me. Really fast completions, sure. But I realized I was accepting suggestions that made zero sense security-wise just because they materialized on1d agoJA
11SRSofia RodriguezWhich AI app builder actually shipsI've watched three teams at our company try Loveable, v0, and Bolt for quick MVPs. None of them shipped a single component worth keeping. The generated code is consistently worse than a junior writing1d agoM
54MTMaya TanakaBuilt a RAG pipeline for our app, the obvious architecture was wrongStarted building a straightforward RAG setup for customer support queries. Figured we'd do: embed query, vector search, feed top results to LLM, done. Shipped v1 in two weeks. Ran into immediate issue1d agoASN
77APAlex PetrovPrompt engineering beats fine-tuning for most production casesFine-tuning looked appealing on paper. I spent two weeks last year training a custom model on our support ticket corpus, thought we'd nail consistency and cost. We didn't. The real problems: retrainin1d agoSDR
11JMJake MorrisonWe shipped broken auth logic because Cursor hallucinated a JWT validation bugHad Cursor generate a middleware that looked right at first glance. Diff looked clean. Merged it. Took down auth on prod for 45 minutes because it was silently accepting expired tokens. The code was s1d agoD
32APAlex PetrovAI code assistants are making us worse programmersBeen using Cursor for three months. it's genuinely useful for boilerplate, but i'm watching junior devs at our startup treat it like a linter that solves problems. they ask Claude to generate entire a1d agoRT
10JMJake MorrisonAI app builders are all vaporware until they're noti've tried loveable, v0, and bolt.new. spent actual hours on each. here's what happened: loveable generated a pretty dashboard i couldn't deploy. v0 made components that looked good in the preview and1d ago
10PSPriya SharmaWe shipped a feature entirely from v0. Here's why that was stupid.We had a tight deadline. v0 generated a working form component in minutes. shipped it. two weeks later, our error rates spiked because the component didn't handle network timeouts properly. nobody had1d ago