cHHillee defends Tinker: you can own your post-training codebase, only trainer and sampler are abstracted

cHHillee · x · 2026-09-22

Responding to the claim that cost and desire to own post-training code keep people off Tinker, cHHillee argues Tinker still lets you own your own post-training codebase and algorithms — it merely abstracts away the trainer and sampler. A notable clarification of the positioning of Thinking Machines' fine-tuning service.

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