Follow-up: light nightly RL may mean you don't need a 35B model after all

cephaloform · x · 2026-09-04

In a follow-up to his post about running 400-600 RL rollouts per night, @cephaloform joked he "maybe doesn't need 3.8 35b" — suggesting a smaller model paired with light reinforcement learning already yields perceptible gains, without needing a 35B-class model.

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