Computer Vision Interview Questions, issue 23, Jan 24, 2026
The Flamingo Architecture Trap
Senior AI Engineer interview at Google DeepMind, and the interviewer asks:
“We have a 70B parameter LLM. We need it to ‘see’ images. But here’s the constraint: We have zero budget to fine-tune the 70B weights, and we can’t afford to destroy the model’s existing reasoning capabilities.”
The exact components you need to add vision to a frozen LLM - without paying the fine-tuning cost.
The full answer, with the mechanism and the arithmetic, is for paid subscribers on Substack.