I appreciate the corrections and community notes on this, but here's the deal: If this doesn't happen as the headline suggests, it soon will. Transformers applied over *weights* instead of *text* would make this possible. The punchline is that...1/
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp…View quoted post on X
