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AI models just became something you can repair

MIT researchers changed 0.016% of a model with no retraining. Its math score went from 7.9% to 48.1%.

AI models just became something you can repair, not only retrain.

If an AI can now repair another AI, who should be allowed to make those repairs, and how would you know they did?

Sources: Takehi, Teoh, Zhang and Khattab, “Sparks of Weight-Space Programming”, MIT CSAIL, 2 Nov 2026 (rikiyat.github.io). Matthew Honnibal, critique, 3 Nov 2026 (honnibal.dev). Qwen3.5-0.8B model card (huggingface.co).

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