What Ben Williams thinks about AI alignment
Product and growth leader; VP of product at the developer security company Snyk in 2022, later a product and growth advisor; writes the newsletter The Product-Led Geek.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ben Williams has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingLeaders share responsibility for alignment drift when they have not built mechanisms to catch it.
Their wordsEven when those are the underlying cause, the leader should shoulder at least some responsibility. They created an environment where divergence could happen, or accepted that it would, and didn’t put the mechanisms in place to find, spot and course correct it.
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Our readingTeams are never fully aligned, but misalignment gets exponentially worse the longer it runs.
Their wordsYou’ll never have complete alignment on any given day, and that’s OK. But the impact gets exponentially worse the longer it’s allowed to go on. Over a short period those subtly different directions are inconsequential. Over a long one, they’re the gap between London and Edinburgh.