Agent automation turns months of interpretability research into an automated pipeline
morqon · x · 2026-10-16
Quoting Nick Cammarata: before agents, automating mechanistic interpretability was "somewhat hopeless" — the tools existed but the experiments were sheer labor. The 40 pages of experiments in Curve Detectors / Curve Circuits studying just ten neurons took months; now the entire process is automated by agents.
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