Yacine mocks mechinterp: all we found is the neuron making Qwen a friendly neighbor
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-27
Yacine snarks that the mechinterp community has produced "lots of talk but no results" beyond finding the neuron that makes Qwen act like a friendly neighbor who bakes you an apple pie every Thanksgiving. It lands in the context of his argument that open-source LLMs must share training data to be trusted.
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