August 16, 2026

Why LinkedIn says prompting was a non-starter — and small models was the breakthrough

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LinkedIn is a leader in AI recommender systems, having developed them over the last 15-plus years. But getting to a next-gen recommendation stack for the job-seekers of tomorrow required a whole new technique. The company had to look beyond off-the-s...