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Training a Local LLM (Qwen3.5-2B) to Generate Git Commit Messages Using MLX + LoRA

I trained a small local LLM to generate conventional Git commit messages directly from diffs.The entire setup runs locally on a MacBook using MLX + LoRA, and training took about 25 minutes.Here is how the pipeline works. TL;DR Fine-tuned Qwen3.5-2B-Base locally using MLX + LoRA Built a dataset of ~1400 commit diffs Training took ~25 minutes on a MacBook M4 Pro Final model generates conventional commit messages from diffs Git Repo: https://github.com/nithinputhenveettil/mlx-llm-commit-message-finetuning Example:

Sunday, March 8, 2026 Read
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What made you choose your industry? ✏️

My Journey into Software Engineering!! “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a software engineer.” Just kidding, guys 😅. Nope, this is not the case for me. I am just quoting the famous dialogue from Goodfellas. For me, I was introduced to programming in the year 2009 when I joined my higher secondary schooling. It was C++, running in its famous blue IDE with large fonts and everything, that too on an old Windows XP machine. At that time, I didn’t have a PC at home. To be honest, I didn’t find programming that amusing in those days. I was trying to learn code by heart instead of understanding the language itself.

Saturday, February 1, 2025 Read