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Ten Ways Mechanistic Interpretability Research Can Mislead You

A circuit that looks clean, a feature that reconstructs well, an intervention that moves the metric — each is compatible with a story nobody has actually tried to break.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 18 min read

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Running an Interpretability Investigation That Holds Up

A circuit that looks real on your screen has to survive a matched control, a blind check, and someone else's attempt to break it before it earns a place in an audit report. This is how the practitioners who take that seriously actually work.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 16 min read

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