100toolkit

A small open model, fine-tuned on a MacBook Air, that writes without em dashes, "not X, but Y" or lists of three, with no system prompt. Answers on 40 held-out prompts, the training rounds, and how to run it.

First shown on Hacker News on 19 October 2026 as “Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out”, where it reached 158 points and 113 comments. Read the discussion.