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DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again


Ever since Golden Gate Claude I’ve been fascinated with “steering”: the idea that you can guide LLM outputs by directly manipulating the activations of the model mid-flight. DeepSeek V4 Flash I was inspired to write this post by antirez’s recent project DwarfStar 4, which is a version of llama.cpp that’s been stripped down to run only DeepSeek-V4-Flash.

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