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A horizontal sliding-rail compute-allocation board with anodised aluminium GPU-hour tokens racked into slotted bins, one token caught mid-slide between the pretraining bin and the interpretability bin

What Interpretability Actually Costs to Do at Scale

A trained dictionary and a verified circuit are not the same deliverable. One is bought with GPU-hours, the other with analyst-hours, and neither line item has grown anywhere near as fast as the models they are meant to explain.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 23, 2026 · 18 min read

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