Interpretability Researcher: Every Deep Learning Engineer Should Do One Mech-Interp Project
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-04
Mechanistic interpretability researcher wendlerch calls the field wonderful and recommends every deep learning engineer or researcher complete at least one mech-interp project — joking that serious DL practitioners have likely already done one without calling it that. Having names for things still helps.
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