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Coding an Agent: Steering a Local Model

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Coding an Agent: Steering a Local Model
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Last Updated on October 6, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Enzo Lombardi Originally published on Towards AI. Directional Edits in DS4, or why a slider can do what a fork of the weights cannot Most of what you change about a language model’s behaviour you change from the outside. You write a system prompt, you pick a sampling temperature, you ask for brevity in the last line of the message. The model reads those words like everything else and decides how much to care. There is a second lever th

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