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Fine-Tuning vs. In-Context Reasoning: Economic and Performance Tradeoffs

When to train specialized LoRA adapters versus leveraging test-time compute with frontier foundation models.

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The Economics of Test-Time Compute

Why spending additional inference tokens on Chain-of-Thought planning often surpasses expensive domain-specific model retraining.

Enforcing strict bespoke JSON schemas and internal proprietary DSL syntaxes where zero-shot models hallucinate.

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