Old hands-on guide resurfaces as MIT weight-editing claims spark interest

Amid renewed interest in weight editing sparked by MIT's claims about Astra, blogger voooooogel resurfaced his 2023 post showing how to build a GPT-2 style Transformer for sequence prediction by hand-assigning weights, without any training.

2026-11-03 ~ 2026-11-03 · 2 related posts

• Hand-assigning every weight: blogger builds a working transformer with zero training — voooooogel · 2026-11-03
• A 2023 hands-on guide to weight editing: building a transformer from scratch — voooooogel · 2026-11-03