[Day 5] My Cat-LoRA Got Worse With 45x More Photos. So I Figured Out Why and Fixed It. Intro Day 5! Today was originally going to be "have AI analyze a year of my Amazon order history," but downloading the Amazon purchase history just wouldn't work no matter what I tried. So that was a bust. Pivoted. On Day 4 the AI sorted my iPhone library and pulled out 999 photos it thought were cats. I figured: why not feed those into the Day 2 cat-LoRA pipeline and re-train at scale? Day 2 used 22 photos. Today: 45x that. Surely the LoRA gets stronger, right? Spoiler: it got worse. So I dug into why, fixed it, then ran a second experiment to test a different hypothesis. This post is the whole journey: failure → diagnosis → revenge → bonus experiment . Today's setup Data : 999 photos labeled "cat" by the Day 4 CLIP classifier. Goal : Strengthen the Day 2 cat-LoRA by re-training with much more data.…