Prompting, Fine-Tuning, or RAG

1. The Adaptation Question

Every GenAI design reaches the same fork within minutes of starting. The general-purpose model you started with does not know your products, your policies, your tone, or your users. Sometimes the interviewer poses the question directly: "would you fine-tune here?" Other times they just wait quietly to see if you raise it yourself. Either way, you have three tools for adapting a model to your product, and here is the part that trips people up: they solve different problems