The reported training run took 69.6 seconds for 180 steps on an M4 Max.

The project reports 180 optimisation steps requiring 69.6 seconds, with a stated variation of ±1.2 seconds, on Apple hardware using MLX-native automatic differentiation. That measurement makes the proposal notable as a systems experiment: adaptation is presented as feasible on a consumer machine rather than only on a specialised training cluster. Yet runtime alone does not establish practical utility. Latency, energy cost, memory pressure, adapter stability, and performance under long conversations would need separate controlled benchmarks.