How Veteran ML Engineers Can Transition to LLMs

Experienced traditional ML engineers looking to move into LLMs are advised to leverage existing skills in model evaluation, building Evals on classic tasks like banking77 and practicing SFT and GRPO, with local experimentation on Mac using models like gpt-osx-20b or Qwen via Tinker.

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