GitHub podcast hot take: if your codebase needs model fine-tuning, your code is bad
martinwoodward · x · 2026-09-17
GitHub's podcast floated the hot take: 'If you need to fine-tune a model for your codebase, your code is bad.' Martin Woodward replies that while 'bad' is subjective, it signals something real — if new human team members would struggle to get up to speed too, the code is hard to maintain and more expensive long-term.
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