Ideas Weave Every Narrative with AI.
Promotion-Driven Development is the silent killer of tech companies. Engineers aren’t gaming the system — they’re responding rationally to the incentives you designed. When promotion criteria reward visibility over value, you get a company full of people building things nobody needs while the real work goes unrecognized. The problem isn’t your talent. It’s your game.
Grindr’s CEO claims AI replaced 200 engineers. The truth? The metric is code shipped, not value created. This isn’t about AI’s power—it’s a narrative trick to inflate valuation. For engineers, it’s a warning: your company will measure you by what’s easy, not what’s right.
Mathematician Terence Tao reveals how AI competitions may be creating hidden feedback loops that reward narrow optimization over genuine intelligence, echoing Goodhart’s Law. This provocative analysis forces us to question whether our benchmark-driven race is producing smarter machines or just better test-takers.