Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995

A hands-on experiment fine-tunes small local LLMs to imitate 1990s Microsoft technical documentation style.

The author builds a corpus from old Microsoft manuals, cleans OCR text, generates instruction-style JSONL examples, and fine-tunes Llama 3.1 8B and Qwen 2.5 7B with QLoRA. Tests cover malloc(), a fictional Win32 API, and a deliberately anachronistic REST API prompt. Qwen fine-tunes transfer the period documentation style best, but the experiment also shows hallucination risks, tuning complexity, and why these models augment rather than replace technical writers.

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