Stop Asking AI for Post-Hoc Explanations — Building Deterministic Receipts with me.explain(path)
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The anti-pattern If your system's audit trail is "ask the model why it did that," you don't have an audit trail. You have a second model output, generated by the same process as the first, with no architectural guarantee it reflects what actually happened. This is easy to miss because the answer you get back is usually fluent, specific, and plausible. Anthropic's research on chain-of-thought faithfulness (Lanham et al., 2023) found that these self-reports frequently don't reflect the…
1Key Takeaways
- The anti-pattern If your system's audit trail is "ask the model why it did that," you don't have an audit trail.
- You have a second model output, generated by the same process as the first, with no architectural guarantee it reflects what actually happened.
- This is easy to miss because the answer you get back is usually fluent, specific, and plausible.
- Anthropic's research on chain-of-thought faithfulness (Lanham et al., 2023) found that these self-reports frequently don't reflect the….
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that the anti-pattern If your system's audit trail is "ask the model why it did that," you don't have an audit trail.
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