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Fine-Tuning vs Prompt Engineering

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You are working with a language model for a business workflow where the output quality matters, but the team also wants to move quickly and keep maintenance low. You need to decide whether to adapt the model with training data or shape its behavior through prompts.

Question

What are the trade-offs between fine-tuning and prompt engineering?