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Lessons distilled from real situations: what broke and what changed.

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Before Training an LLM: From Design Dials to a Frozen Shape

Hyperparameters, vocabulary, and why a 7B model is 7B before day one, how the dials connect, where parameters live, and why the context window is a budgeted choice.

JUL 8, 2026

RAG Is Not a Database

RAG is runtime context construction at query time, not a storage layer you bolt onto an LLM.

JUN 27, 2026