Developer's Claude-powered distillation of Russian cosmism text goes hilariously wrong
Developer genmon tried distilling a public-domain Russian cosmism mystical text into an "oracle" model using Claude, but the synthetic-data pipeline silently stalled, Claude refused to cooperate, and the first run overfit—though the second "summoned" model did run, rudely.
2026-10-17 ~ 2026-10-18 · 2 related posts
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