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- 2026-07-19
Two Hundred Studies Later: Reading Circuits from a Transformer's Weights
Behind our circuit-discovery paper is a registry of about two hundred pre-registered studies, most of which failed. This post walks through that record — what we tried, what broke, and how a question about tool-use agents turned into a result about two eigenvectors of the same graph.