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System prompt learning

A hypothesis about a missing paradigm of LLM learning: not changing weights (pretraining, finetuning), but changing "notes to self" — something like a system prompt that the model modifies after encountering a new problem. Analogous to human "remember this for the future" learning.

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Maturity rationale

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Author: Andrej Karpathy