Fine-Tune vs Prompt: Taming Hallucinated Deadlines

When you dictate a messy to-do list and want clean JSON out, the question isn't just whether to fine-tune or prompt a general model — it's whether you can tolerate fabricated deadlines or missed tasks. This episode breaks apart format adherence, judgment quality, and failure predictability, exploring where fine-tuning actually moves the needle and where the real cost lies: not in compute, but in a hundred hours of labeling your own subjective sense of priority. Episode #092084 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/092084