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I tried "weight-space programming" on 6 kinds of models. Here's where it works and where it breaks.

Community description: A few days ago, MIT CSAIL researchers published Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: a frontier model...

Dev.to | Nov 6, 2026 | Iyadh Khalfallah

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The result that surprised me: a model written with zero labels The usual way to get a model: collect labelled data, train. A small compiler turns this program into a standard XGBoost model file, which loads in stock XGBoost like any trained model. Reading a model works on every model I tried, including the LLM.

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