Autoresearch: Shipping a Behaviour Change in 20 Kilobytes

Changing what a model refuses usually means redistributing the model. You edit a few hundred matrices, re-upload 157 gigabytes, and every user pulls a fresh copy of a checkpoint that differs from the old one by a rounding error smeared thinly across its weights. There&rsquo;s a second option that has been available the whole time. Ship the difference as a single vector (about 20 kilobytes of…