Dohmke: Most company codebases are too small for meaningful fine-tuning
Thomas Dohmke · GitHub CEO: The AI Coding Gold Rush, Vibe Coding & Cursor · Jun 12, 2025 · at 26:52
Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, explains why fine-tuning AI models on internal enterprise repositories yields poor results.
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“If you look at the individual repository or set of repositories, that code base isn't actually big enough to have a meaningfully fine tuned model.”
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