Fine-tuning Qwen2.5 0.5B on 5,000+ personal WhatsApp messages to clone your texting style on a MacBook

alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-11-13

A developer fine-tuned Qwen2.5 0.5B on 5,000+ of their own WhatsApp messages so the small model mimics their texting style — all on a MacBook.

Recipe: 4-bit quantization, LoRA fine-tuning with mlx-lm on Apple Silicon. A cheap, reproducible way to build a personal "digital twin" for messaging.

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