Why You Can't Trust Your Training Loss
Aug 9, 2026
Four consecutive checkpoint saves, 250 steps apart:
1.11 → 0.58 → 1.32 → 0.49
A 63% swing between adjacent saves. The trend is real. The step-to-step reading is noise — and the trend went down for six and a half days while the model got steadily worse.
I trained an AI on my own face for a week to find out exactly where it broke.
Full video: https://youtu.be/w_7EpghF8fw
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