I fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 (0.8B–4B) on a Mac for text-to-SQL
2B beats 12B
Details
- External ID
- 47261691
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 (0.8B–4B) on a Mac for text-to-SQL
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 5, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4108241082410824
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- local AI inference and ComfyUI tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- fine-tuned qwen for text-to-sql
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Fine-tuning open-source models on Apple Silicon using tools like MLX-LM or Unsloth with existing Text-to-SQL datasets is well-documented and easily scripted with an AI assistant.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Mistral-Nemo 12B, Qwen 3.5 Small models
Concerns raised: Larger models hallucinate answers instead of following structured output format, Larger models compute mentally and output plain numbers instead of SQL
Competitors
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Attention rank: #158 of 268 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 125 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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