Use a model half the size in your experimentation phase, says dev
cephaloform · x · 2026-09-16
The author urges builders to "stop and do it with a model half the size" during the experimentation phase, claiming that halving model size brings "unreasonable mental clarity" — smaller models make rapid iteration faster and experimental signals cleaner.
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