Had this wild idea at 2am that I'd been putting off for weeks. Finally decided to stop overthinking it—spun up some idle GPUs on a decentralized compute network, launched a small-scale fine-tuning job, configured my reward distribution, and basically let the distributed swarm do its thing.

Halfway through the run, something interesting happened: the trainer node and verifier node couldn't agree on a checkpoint validation. Normally that'd mean scrapping everything and starting over. But their Verde protocol kicked in automatically—handled the dispute resolution, rebalanced the computation, and kept the job running without me having to intervene.

Pretty wild seeing decentralized AI infrastructure actually work in practice when things don't go perfectly smooth.