What we learned fine-tuning our own coding model on a $100 budget

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We're a small team at ElderAI building ATLAS Code, a coding model for agent tools (Cline, Aider, Continue, Cursor and anything else that takes an OpenAI-compatible base URL). We do our own training runs on rented GPUs with about $100 of prepaid compute. Here's an honest account of the last two days. The short version: none of our fine-tunes has cleared its quality gate yet. That's why the invite-only preview still runs the starting checkpoint we're trying to improve.

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