A timetable desk has four options: rewrite the prompt, retrieve tonight’s PDF into the prompt, fine-tune on old tickets, or pretrain a new LLM. How should they order those from lightest to heaviest?
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Short Explanation
Lightest to heaviest: rewrite the prompt, retrieve tonight’s PDF, fine-tune on old tickets, then pretrain a new LLM. Climb only as high as the gap needs. Pretrain-first, fine-tune-before-a-prompt, or an NCCL cluster skips that ladder.
Full Explanation
The adaptation ladder is prompt → retrieve → fine-tune → pretrain. Start with the cheapest experiment that solves the gap. Jumping to pretrain or to Professional collectives skips that order.