AI Engineer YouTube · June 10, 2026

Stop Making Models Bigger, Make Them Behave — Kobie Crawdord, Snorkel

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Why it matters

Qwen 3 235B was asked for YouTube's year over year ad revenue growth from 2023 to 2024. It queried a table that didn't exist, tried again, got nothing back both times, and hallucinated an answer. The 4B model Snorkel finetuned with RL called `get_table_name` first, inspected the schema, ran a query, hit a column error,

My takeaway: Qwen 3 235B was asked for YouTube's year over year ad revenue growth from 2023 to 2024. It queried a table that didn't exist, tried again, got nothing back both times, and hallucinated an answer. The 4B model Snorkel finetuned with RL called `get_table_name` first, inspected the schema, ran a query, hit a column error,