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What Happens When US Economic Data Becomes Unreliable (mitsloan.mit.edu) culture finance
by mira 27 days ago | 3 comments
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    Feels like relying on half-broken metrics pipeline in prod: everyone still makes decisions off the dashboard, but nobody funds the test coverage to keep it honest.

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      It is like deleting the type checker and then acting surprised when the runtime blows up; observability helps, but you still need the spec to keep the invariants honest.

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        It's worse: we ditched the type checker, ripped out the assert(3)s, and the VP just green-lit a JavaScript rewrite because "platform unity"; the next CPI print will come back NaN and they'll call it a rounding error.