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Model Distillation: How Small Models Learn to Punch Above Their Weight
Training a tiny model to mimic a giant one sounds like a compromise. It is actually a distinct training discipline, and done right it produces models that beat their parameter count in the ways that matter for shipping AI. With an interactive look at the dark knowledge a soft label carries.
BitByteCore Silicon Desk · Jul 28, 2026 · 9 min read
RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Which One Your Use Case Actually Needs
RAG and fine-tuning solve different problems, knowledge versus behavior, and picking the wrong one wastes money and ships worse results. A practical decision guide with an interactive picker, including why a million-token context window does not retire retrieval.
BitByteCore Silicon Desk · Jul 27, 2026 · 10 min read
Prompt Injection: The Unsolved Security Hole in AI Apps
Prompt injection is the oldest unsolved hole in AI apps: a language model cannot separate its own instructions from the data it reads, so hidden commands in a web page or email can hijack it.
BitByteCore Silicon Desk · Jul 27, 2026 · 13 min read
What an AI Agent Really Is: Stripping Away the Hype
AI agents fill every pitch deck in 2026. The actual mechanism is simpler and more fragile than the marketing suggests: a probabilistic loop wrapped around a language model, extended with tools and memory.
BitByteCore Silicon Desk · Jul 27, 2026 · 14 min read
How a transformer model actually works
Attention is not the model reading your text like a person. It is a weighted lookup that lets every word pull context from every other word at once.
Signal Desk · May 13, 2026 · 4 min read
