Evaluating Agent Diagnostics: Do Interpretability Tools Help Over Reading Transcripts?
a_karvonen · x · 2026-08-22
Research evaluates agents on their ability to diagnose causes and predict outcomes of prompt edits (e.g., renaming variables to fix bugs). The core question is whether providing agents with interpretability tools offers any advantage over just reading the transcript. Subsequent tests covered activation oracles, autoencoders, and SAEs.
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