AI agent 'teaches' post-training by generating fake SFT samples and making you label them
HamelHusain · x · 2026-09-05
ivanleomk shared a funny moment: when asked to teach him more about post-training, an agent (@bot) didn't lecture—it fabricated a batch of fake SFT samples and told him to look at the data and do data labeling himself.
He joked that this proves Hamel Husain's mantra "just look at your data." Beyond the humor, it shows how coding agents take a hands-on teaching approach: instead of explaining theory, they generate realistic examples so you experience what SFT data actually looks like.
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