Today is June 12. I hoped to be in closed, private beta by June 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s looking unlikely now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, I had to change my user authentication database. The first provider I tried wasn’t working out, so I rebuilt the entire user database in a new environment. That added days of backend work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second\u2014and this one stung\u2014I had to switch the model I’m using for inference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I really wanted to use Trinity-Mini. I believe in it on principle. It’s a good model. But it’s just not tuned for the kind of chat and instruction-following that Tailor requires. That’s not Trinity’s fault. It’s just not the right tool for this job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I switched to Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why this model? Two reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s the same? The small size. Low carbon footprint. Open source. That hasn’t changed. Right now, for closed beta, we’re running inference over Openrouter. For open beta, Mistral-Small will be hosted in a secure Runpod so user data never hits Openrouter’s API. And training a custom Tailor from Mistral-Small is still the plan. The final product will launch with a fully custom, fine-tuned model developed especially for Tailor’s use case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I still anticipate shipping the closed beta before the end of June\u2014hopefully in another week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve added a lot of features since my last update, and I’m really pleased with them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still in the works:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I could launch closed beta tomorrow. But I don’t want anyone using this until it’s something I absolutely love to use. And it’s not quite<\/em> there yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To paraphrase the immortal words of Shigeru Miyamoto:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n A rushed product eventually comes out, but a bad product is bad forever.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n You only have one chance to make a first impression. I intend to make a great one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014Catherine<\/p>\n\n\n\n P.S. If you’re interested in following along, I’ll post another update when the closed beta is ready. No mailing list yet\u2014just watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is June 12. I hoped to be in closed, private beta by June 15. That’s looking unlikely now. Why? A few setbacks. First, I had to change my user authentication database. The first provider I tried wasn’t working out, so I rebuilt the entire user database in a new environment. That added days of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailorfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailorfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailorfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailorfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailorfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tailorfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/tailorfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailorfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailorfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailorfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
What does this mean for beta?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The core loop works<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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