John Hite

I’m a technologist and engineering leader based in the New York City area, currently Chief Architect at EverSafe. I write about building software, leading engineering teams, and the tools we use along the way.

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Reasoning Without Feeling
Sep 15, 2026
Major companies are pursuing AGI by building bigger and stronger reasoning models. But these models suffer from producing outputs that do not align with human values. Their efforts to nudge these models towards alignment don't seem to be working. These models focus entirely on reasoning, but human values are not based purely on reason. They are based in our emotions. Is alignment of emotionless reasoning models even possible?