Periodic's CoLM talk: when does training your own model beat frontier + harness?
heghbalz · x · 2026-10-18
agarwl shared slides from a CoLM talk on Periodic's work. The "billion dollar question": frontier model + your harness, or train your own model? Slides plot test-time performance vs context length, showing a crossover point where a self-trained model overtakes frontier + harness. Another slide outlines a continual-learning scheme: retrain every N weeks on all data measured so far (model v1→v5) as lab data grows daily.
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