Engineering 8 min
Quantization without tears: a production checklist
INT8 in prod is a workflow, not a switch. The five steps we run before any model ships at reduced precision.
person Latentsig AI Eng
Exploring the confluence of frontier AI theory and the engineering realities of shipping it. Field notes, benchmarks, and the occasional opinion.
A practical primer on activation probing during fine-tuning runs — and the early signals that predict whether your model is actually learning what you think it is.
INT8 in prod is a workflow, not a switch. The five steps we run before any model ships at reduced precision.
Research, integration, and operations move on different clocks. Treating them as one program is how teams stall.
The metrics that actually correlate with downstream LLM quality — and the ones the leaderboards keep rewarding instead.
Roughly monthly. Engineering, no marketing.