Re:GPT-5.6
by dahart on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:21PM
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True for today’s static models during inference. Not true for self-supervised learning, not true during training or fine-tuning, of course. Ignores that LLMs might start continuous training in the future - there’s no fundamental or technical constraint that prevents LLM ‘plasticity’. And ignores that accumulating context/memories/skills/etc affects performance and might count as a valid analogy to what many people loosely call ‘neural plasticity’, which is sometimes casually mistaking knowledge for network modification.
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Both of those things only happen once by the LLM model provider and not every time a prompt is issued.
Today, depending on which model you use. You’re making unstated assumptions. And that’s not a fundamental property of LLMs, it’s happenstance. LLMs are capable of ‘plasticity’, by design.
You are incorrect. "memory.md" and other context manipulations do not change the underlying model.