I Fine Tuned an Open Source Model and the Bhagavad Gita Explained It Better Than Any Paper

A personal experience told the way I actually lived it. When I was fine tuning an open source model recently, I had one simple question stuck in my head "What does fine tuning really mean beyond the math?" We see the equations everywhere . Matrices . Gradients . Low rank decomposition . But when you are sitting in front of your terminal watching a training loop run, the math alone does not tell the full story. Something deeper is happening something very human. This is the mental model that finally made it click for me. It Started With a Graduate Imagine someone who just finished their degree . They spent years building something real not just memorizing facts, but developing a way of thinking. Problem solving. Structured reasoning. A foundation that took enormous effort to build. Now they join a company on their first day. Nobody sits them down and says "Forget everything you learned. We are going to retrain you from scratch for this job." That would be absurd. It would waste everythi