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Capability is discovered after release, including by its makers

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A Conversation with Peter Danenberg (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

A lab shipping a model does not know its capability surface, so discovery is an empirical exercise run in 48-hour bursts after launch. The gap between what a system can do and what anyone knows it can do is not a communication failure but the actual state of knowledge.

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2026-01-28: A lab prototypes for 48 hours at a time to learn what its own model can do

2026-01-28: A user drives three hours to complain and the policy is reversed

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Capability is discovered after release, including by its makers
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KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/themes/nobody-inside-knows-either
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- A Conversation with Peter Danenberg — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-peter-danenberg
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