Skip the fine-tune: for an apartment-hunting agent, an MCP search tool is all you need

dbasch · x · 2026-09-18

Responding to someone eager to fine-tune their first model to find a dream apartment in Buenos Aires, dbasch argues fine-tuning is the wrong tool: what you want is an MCP letting Claude or ChatGPT search listings. With data in hand, sorting through it is trivial for the model — the hard part is having the data, not training.

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