RAG vs Fine-Tuning: How to Choose the Right Approach
Use RAG when the model’s problem is not knowing something. Use fine-tuning when the model’s problem is knowing something but not doing anything consistent with it. Most teams frame this as a single either-or decision, and that framing is the first mistake. RAG and fine-tuning fix different failure modes, and a production system with real […]
How to Choose an AI Model: A Practical Selection Framework
AI model selection should not start with a leaderboard. It should start with a small evaluation set built from your own production data, because public benchmark rank rarely predicts how a model performs on your specific task distribution, and the real cost of picking wrong shows up months later as a reliability problem, not as […]