Guides

How-tos and strategic perspectives on building with small language models.

Vibe-Tuning: The Art of Fine-Tuning Small Language Models with a Prompt

From prompt to production-ready model — no datasets, no ML expertise, no GPUs. Automates data generation, distillation, and evaluation.

How the distil labs platform turns a prompt and a few dozen examples into a small, accurate expert agent — 50-400x smaller than LLMs.

Agentic systems don't need an LLM everywhere. When to use SLMs vs LLMs, common use cases, and the decision framework.