I finetuned 1.5B Qwen to near GPT-4o level bash generation perf
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Details
- External ID
- 49966238
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I finetuned 1.5B Qwen to near GPT-4o level bash generation perf
- Website domain
- dirac.run
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27
- Tags
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Description
Purely a hobby side project to see how far I can push a really small model, using (mostly) automated training pipelinesOriginal mention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869735There were a bunch of requests to release it. Full synthetic data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/dirac-run/ec-training-dataModels: https://huggingface.co/dirac-run/ec-1.5b-gguf and https://huggingface.co/dirac-run/ec-0.6b-ggufCli https://github.com/dirac-run/ecfeel free to train/use the data as you wish.
Enrichment
- Niche
- large language models
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- fine-tuned language model for bash scripting
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The creator specifically automated the synthetic data generation and LoRA/fine-tuning pipeline using LLM agents and existing HuggingFace/Axolotl tools.
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