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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by GodelNumbering on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:38PM (#50345802)
I tried to reproduce this using Astra for a natural language to bash command small model[1][2], but got no net improvement. Editing 1,920 weights fixed some grep mistakes but broke other commands. I am guessing it is easier to improve behavior when it can be first pinpointed to a specific are of the model.

  [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966238
  [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869735
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by BrokenCogs on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:56PM (#50346035)
Similarly, I just tried this on one of my own neural networks (17MB only) trained from scratch to perform a regression task and GPT-6 Astra was unable to correctly guess what the task was for and how to improve it. This might suggest that Astra is on the Qwen weights?
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