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A History of Mechanistic Interpretability

Long before the term existed, researchers tried to read meaning into a trained network's units. This is mechanistic interpretability's dated history: a naming paper, a landmark result, and three labs converging on one tool within months of each other.

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

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Interpretability

What a Circuit Explains: The State and Limits of Mechanistic Interpretability

Taking a mechanism apart tells you what each part was holding — but only once the part is off, and only for the mechanism on the bench. What interpretability has established, and what it has not.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 8, 2026 · 17 min read

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