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Tim Heptner

I enjoy building AI systems, self-hosting everything I can, and writing about software engineering, automation and modern infrastructure. Working as AI Solution & Automation Engineer from Bielefeld.

Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Rethinking Model Size in AI New on the blog Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Rethinking Model Size in AI In modern AI with LLMs, the belief persists: Bigger models are automatically better. More parameters, more compute. Yet this oversimplifies. Larger models need more data, better architecture, smart training. Often, a well-designed small model beats a big one. Smarter design trumps blind scaling.