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Defending DreamBooth Without Overclaiming It
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In an interview, you've just argued that DreamBooth (full fine-tuning) is the right personalization method for an AI-headshots product, citing its ~15-minute training time fitting a same-day SLA and the fact that per-user models are discarded after generating outputs. The interviewer follows up: "Okay — now design the same core feature, but as an always-on personalized-avatar product serving millions of users continuously, where a user's personalized model needs to be available on demand indefinitely, not generated once."
- Does your DreamBooth recommendation still hold for this new product shape? Justify your answer using the same axes (training cost, storage/serving cost, identity fidelity) from the original comparison.
- What technique would you switch to, and why does its trade-off profile fit this new product shape better?
- What does this exchange demonstrate about how to structure a strong system-design answer in general?
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