We have built a working simulacrum of knowledge work.
The incentives almost guarantee we are in big trouble. Many workers, quite rationally, want to do well on whatever dimension they are being measured on. If they are judged by the surface-level quality of their work, then it’s no surprise most of “their” output will be written by LLMs.
Simulacrum of Knowledge Work | One Happy Fellow - blog
Ask anyone who has ever put a slide deck in front of me: I judge those proxy measures. To me those have always been a combination of how done do you think this is and how much do you care about the audience you are putting it in front of?