"Emergent" weight-editing skills may just come from training data full of interpretability techniques
dejavucoder · x · 2026-11-03
dejavucoder mocks the recurring AI-cycle pattern: claims that a model (astra) can boost performance by editing its own weights, followed by fable and Opus 5.5 doing the same, all hailed as "emergent capability." His skeptical take: the models were likely trained on data full of classical mechanistic interpretability techniques — "every single time." Delivered as a snarky meme post with a cat image.
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