Lesson 3: Training a small adapter instead of the whole model
27 min read·13 Oct 2026
Module 12 · Lesson 3 · About 60 minutes · Needs: Lesson 1 (the card format,score_cards,sft_example, the 448-character window); Lesson 2 helps but is not required
The situation
Sol 441 at Aurora Station. Maya Lindqvist still wants her four-field log cards. Hana Aoki, the Compute Officer, asks a sharper question: if every crew request gets its own fine-tuned copy of base, how many copies does the station store, and what does each one break?
This lesson freezes base and trains a small add-on instead: an adapter. The running example is log 5190: Omar Winters rerouted the airlock motor in the comms mast.