# A prompt for knowledge gaps

til · 2026-05-13

Been using variations of this prompt every time I notice a gap in my knowledge. Choosing a starting point that I broadly understand and then throwing stuff I literally don't know about works super well for me.

![Knowledge gap prompt](https://assets.aliou.me/blog/knowledge-gap-prompt/knowledge-gap-prompt.jpg)

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> I want to learn more and understand what's fine tuning for llm models, what's lora, how does https://thinkingmachines.ai/ 's products fit in this etc. to do so, i want to use coding agent traces as training data, from hugging face (see https://huggingface.co/changelog/agent-trace-viewer ) , in particular traces from pi.
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> let's assume i know nothing about what is finetuning and how it works. let's go through this blog post https://leoniemonigatti.com/blog/fine-tuning-lfm2-5-1-2b-instruct-with-grpo.html and quizz me on it to see what is my current understanding. use the current directory as scratchpad / notes. download the markdown of the article here so I/we can annotate it . curl it using this url `https://markdown.new/https://leoniemonigatti.com/blog/fine-tuning-lfm2-5-1-2b-instruct-with-grpo.html`

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