Fine-Tuning vs Prompting vs RAG
Lesson 5 of 12 11 minIncluded with Builder
The real engineering decision: how to specialize an AI — and why prompting or RAG usually beats fine-tuning.
What you'll learn
- The real engineering decision: how to specialize an AI — and why prompting or RAG usually beats fine-tuning.
- How fine-tuning vs prompting vs rag fits into the Advanced AI Engineering track
- A hands-on project step you can put in your portfolio
The hands-on project
For an AI feature you'd build, decide: would you solve it with prompting, RAG, fine-tuning, or a mix? Justify your choice using "changes how it acts / what it knows / what it is," and say why you did NOT pick the others.
The full brief, voice tutor walkthrough, and feedback are inside the lesson.
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