Shopify open-sources Tangle; 0.8B model finetune beats GPT-5.6-sol

kieranklaassen · x · 2026-09-02

Shopify's ML team has open-sourced Tangle, a visual ML pipeline editor. It is a platform-agnostic experimentation platform featuring a drag-and-drop interface to build workflows collaboratively, reuse modules, and leverage advanced execution caching to save compute. Additionally, the author shared a practical case: using a self-improving recursive flywheel to train small models for specialized tasks. A finetuned 0.8B model outperformed GPT-5.6-sol xhigh in this specific use case.

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