# Jerry Liu reacts to GPT-6 Astra editing Qwen3.5-0.8B weights

> Original title: wtf

- Source: Jerry Liu
- Published: 2026-11-02T19:44:32.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/socz75wd68aevsa1irzq20l58
- Original: https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/2117342113738391692

## Summary

Jerry Liu posts only "wtf" in response to a quoted post from Riki Takehi. The quoted post says GPT-6 Astra directly edited 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights without gradients or training, raising math performance up to 6x and instruction following 3x.

## Post

wtf

## Quoted post @rikiyatakehi

> We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
> It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
> 
> We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
> Blog: https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/

https://x.com/rikiyatakehi/status/2117313742891327994