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Hacker News · AI· lusob·· 11 hours agoSelectedAI score75

Open-source visual lab Model-Booster enables LLMs to directly code neural network weights

Show HN: Watch an LLM program a neural net's weights instead of training it

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Open-source project Model-Booster has released a visual experimental environment that uses Claude Opus to directly code weights for small neural networks without gradient descent training. Users can adjust sliders in the browser to blend weights and observe real-time behavioral changes in an untrained multilayer perceptron (MLP) with roughly 170k weights across mini-games like catching, dodging, and maze navigation. Local deployment drives the Claude Code CLI to write weights and execute test evaluations, with each generation typically taking several minutes.

Why it matters

This showcases gradient-free weight-space programming, providing an interactive, lightweight experimental platform to explore direct neural network weight generation by LLMs.

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