This should be an easy fix the stairs are wrong. The top stair starts with a tread instead of a riser. That pushes the top step out ~10” making it interfere with where the railing should go. So instead of doing the stairs right he slapped the railing on the outside instead of above the stair.

The top stair should go down at the edge of the deck. Not stick past the edge of the deck.

You have this
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It should be this
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Then the bottom step will line up with the posts too. Not stick past at the bottom by a full tread.

I disagree, I could build this right.

The posts are right. The stairs were built wrong, then the rail was built wrong to accommodate the stairs mistake.

You can see by the top stringer of the railing that that posts line up (green line with arrows)

I tried to draw it out here a bit. On the deck, at the top of the stair case, the 1st stair should be down a step, not sticking out from the deck surface like it is now.

The right side of the stair is correct. (Although to high) The treads should come to the outside edge of the post, so that the side boards line up.

The left side of the staircase is wrong. If the steps were correct and lower, then the Tread should got to the outside edge (left side) of the bottom post. Currently the stair is lined up on the right side of the post

The railing should be centered on posts on both sides of the staircase. Currently it looks centered on the left and on the outside of the right. There should also be a flat top board on the railing to match the rest of the decks railing.

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Good eye. I didn’t notice that either.

The rise of a staircase should be equal for each step, and the rise cannot be more then 7 7/8”. It looks like each step riser is a 2x6 (so 5 1/2”) the treads for most stairs are again 2x6’s (should be 2x10 imho) so that’s another 1 1/2” giving a total rise for each step of 7”.

The top step looks like it has a deck board for the tread. Proper Deck boards are 5/4” (or 1 1/4”) so the top step would be 1/4” shorter then the Rest of the staircase. Shouldn’t pass code if inspected.

Edit. If the deck board isn’t 1 1/4” thick, then they used fence boards for the deck.