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  "title": "Your Fine-Tuned Model Is Tech Debt: A 50x ROI House of Cards — Dan Bjornn, Lease End",
  "why_included": "Lease End replaced a fine-tuned intent classifier with skills and runtime context, cutting production fixes from about a week to under an hour. Higher API spend was offset by lower maintenance cost.",
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    "meaning": "This provides a concrete maintenance argument for moving one structured workflow from model weights into editable, evaluated skills: repairs fell from a week-long retraining cycle to under an hour. It narrows any general anti-fine-tuning conclusion because the replacement cost more per message and the evidence comes from one task, with privacy and offline constraints still favoring fine-tuning in some cases.",
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        "title": "LLM Knowledge Bases: a practical guide — Ben Holmes, Warp",
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