Hayate peeking curiously over the edge

Hayate 疾風

Distilling a big LLM into a web-page categorizer that answers in under a millisecond, one weekend at a time.

One glance, one cut. Your page is tagged before you blink.

Progress log

18 Oct 2026Weekend 3

Weekend 3: who teaches Hayate-chan?

Picking the LLM that labels my training data: three prompts, four models, a fix that went too far, and a consistency number that was too good to be true.

10 Oct 2026Weekend 2

Weekend 2: twenty thousand pages from Common Crawl

Sampling Portuguese and English pages fairly from a 150 GB index without downloading it, and getting blocked once along the way.

10 Oct 2026Weekend 1

Weekend 1: pinning down 330 labels

Setting up the repo, downloading a taxonomy that keeps changing under its version number, and deciding how deep the labels go.