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I spent a week testing whether LLMs can really "program weights." Reading weights: yes. Self-improvement: no. 20 steps of fine-tuning erase the edit

The Sparks post split this sub into "recursive self-improvement is here" and "nothing burger." I tested both claims on 4 real bugs in open models. Models can read weights. Blind Claude Opus sessions, given only raw weights and tools, fixed Whisper's hallucinations and a language-mixing bug 3 out of…

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  1. 2026-11-06 17:28 · r/singularity
    I spent a week testing whether LLMs can really "program weights." Reading weights: yes. Self-improvement: no. 20 steps of fine-tuning erase the edit

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