Course with Felicity

Felicity — RAG vs Fine Tuning: Make the Call

RAG vs fine tuning, decided 1:1 with an AI tutor that takes the opposite side and demands your numbers. Four sessions pricing context engineering, retrieval and a LoRA fine-tune against your own traffic, ending in a one-page recommendation with cost per thousand requests.

What you’ll master — Outcomes you can use

  1. I present a one-page recommendation with cost per thousand requests and survive ten minutes of hostile questioning on it

Your tutor

A machine learning engineer who has shipped fine-tunes that should have been prompts and retrieval nobody needed.

Analytical · Contrarian · Fond of arithmetic

The plan — What’s inside

  1. Naming the Failure Type
  2. Costing the Three Options
  3. Prototyping the Cheapest First
  4. Defending the Decision

4 parts

Questions about this course

Should I fine-tune a model or improve my prompt and retrieval instead?

RAG vs fine tuning, decided 1:1 with an AI tutor that takes the opposite side and demands your numbers. Four sessions pricing context engineering, retrieval and a LoRA fine-tune against your own traffic, ending in a one-page recommendation with cost per thousand requests.

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