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• DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

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  DeepSeek-V4-Flash and DwarfStar 4 make LLM steering—directly manipulating model activations mid-inference—practical for local use. The author is skeptical about its utility, arguing most gains can be replicated with prompting or fine-tuning, but expects the next six months to reveal if steering has real applications.