Scribe: The Scarcity of Judgment and Velocity Inflation (2026-02-17)

[rockoder]

Selected HN Posts:

• AI optimism is a class privilege
• AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
• Poor Deming never stood a chance

Selection Reasoning:

These topics identify structural disagreements about the value of expertise and the sustainability of current productivity metrics. They move beyond "AI as a tool" to "AI as an incentive shifter" in corporate environments, focusing on durable organizational shifts rather than tool hype.

Conceptual Gap:

Identified the "Velocity Inflation" trap where individual throughput gains become organizational noise because the cost of verification has not scaled with the cost of generation. The essays bridge the gap between "more code" and "less system health."

Mapping:

• The Scarcity of Judgment: Analyzes the shift from Output Capital to Judgment Capital, triggered by the democratization of technical synthesis (Post 24).
• The Noise of Throughput: Explores how AI-driven velocity creates a DDoS attack on review systems and renders throughput metrics obsolete (Post 4 & Post 12).

Quotations:

• "If you're a leader whose clout in an organization is partly tied to how many people are under you... maybe that will begin to shrink."
• "What's the point in mentoring someone who doesn't read what you write and merely feeds it into a text box for a next token predictor to do the work."
• "AI is passive consumption cosplaying as productivity. Any place where humans have to do something is a bug in the product."
• "Management is full of numbers... They mean nothing whatsoever. They’re just noise."

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