DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

sean goedeckeMay 16, 2026 │ ai, steeringDeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting againEver since Golden Gate Claude I’ve been fascinated with “steering”: the idea that you can guide LLM outputs by directly manipulating the activations of the model mid-flight. DeepSeek V4 Flash I was inspired to write this post by antirez’s recent project DwarfStar 4, which is a version of llama.cpp that’s been stripped down to run only DeepSeek-V4-Flash. What’s so special about this model? It might be