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DeepSeek-V4-Flash makes LLM steering interesting again

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LLM "steering" — manipulating a model's internal activations mid-inference to change its behavior — is gaining renewed interest now that DeepSeek-V4-Flash offers a capable local open-weights model. Previously, steering was impractical for most developers, but tools like DwarfStar 4 are making it accessible, potentially enabling real-time behavioral control beyond what simple prompting allows.

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