Steering is the process of boosting model weights during a session - if you can work out the relationship between concepts and model weight activations (easier said than done) by examining how activations change with slightly varying prompts within the same session, then you can reinforce the concepts that matter most to you (“write clean code”).

The article dives into why this may or may not be useful.There’s also some good commentary from antitez in a linked HN thread right at the bottom.