Prompting, Fine-Tuning, or RAG

The Adaptation Question

A general-purpose model may not have the information, style, or task behavior your product needs. Decide how to address those gaps using measured failures.

Sometimes the interviewer poses the question directly: "would you fine-tune here?" Other times they wait quietly to see if you raise it yourself.

Either way, you have three tools for adapting a model to your product. Here is the part that surprises people: they solve different problems.

Do not treat the three methods as a sequence from basic to advanced