Frontier LLMs Show Early Signs of Natively Reading and Patching Neural Network Weights
nathanbenaich · x · 2026-11-03
New research shared by nathanbenaich finds early evidence that frontier LLMs can surprisingly read, write, and reason about neural network weights natively — treating raw weights like readable, editable code to diagnose failures and patch them directly, without training.
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