Why devs skip Tinker for posttraining: cost and owning your own code
silver__tsuki · x · 2026-09-22
Asked why he doesn't use Thinking Machines' Tinker for all his posttraining needs, silvertsuki says it comes down mainly to cost — and that most users, for better or worse, want to own their own post-training code.
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