Kubai Kevin

4 articles tagged Finetuning

3 LLM context techniques: when each fails

Compare fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation and long context by failure mode, cost arithmetic and a decision checklist, with code for each.

15 min read · 1 November 2026

Prompt Injection Is Not Your Biggest LLM Data Risk

Prompt injection dominates LLM security checklists, but poisoned training data and label drift often cause more damage. A pipeline-stage model for triage.

17 min read · 3 August 2026

Latency trade-offs: Nairobi teams beat global AI providers

Why AI teams serving East African users weigh total cost of interaction, not raw p99, and how to measure the trade-offs yourself.

14 min read · 26 July 2026

Big model API vs fine-tune: the 2026 math

A practical framework for deciding between prompting a large model API and fine-tuning a small model, with instrumentation, failure modes and cost math.

15 min read · 3 July 2026