Blew $50 on an RL Run to Make Qwen3-8B Forget the Letter E
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-11-11
A developer spent fifty bucks on a tinker RL run with one goal: make Qwen3-8B completely forget how to produce the letter E. A textbook example of the AI community's beloved genre of burning real money on gloriously pointless fine-tuning targets — the reposter summed it up as "type of shit I'd do."
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