Model Architectures · Practitioner
Prompting vs. RAG vs. Fine-Tuning: A Decision Framework
A defensible way to choose between better prompts, retrieval, and training — with cost, latency, and maintenance trade-offs.
- 35 min lesson
- intermediate level
- Engineering Track
- Narrated presentation
What you’ll learn
- Knowledge gap vs. behaviour gap diagnosis
- Retrieval for freshness, citations, and access control
- Fine-tuning for style, format, and latency
- Total cost of ownership and re-training cycles
- Composability of the three approaches
- Evidence-driven escalation
Inside this lesson
A narrated, slide-by-slide presentation with 1 prediction exercise, 1 knowledge check, 4 videos. You answer as you go, and the platform checks your work.