The LoRA Test Kitchen

Failure Files

Honest postmortems covering artifacts, instability, poor training data, prompt failure, version drift, and workflows that did not hold up.

When Better Hardware Did Not Fix the Real Problem

A case study in which a workstation upgrade failed to improve usable output because the real problems were an overfit LoRA, prompt leakage, and missing probe discipline—problems that became clearer, not smaller, with more speed.

Failure Files Oct 12, 2026