How AI is quietly making your team fragile
← WritingRegression to the MeanHow AI is quietly making your team fragileJuly 23, 2026 · 19 min read“If we all reacted the same way, we’d be predictable, and there’s always more than one way to view a situation. What’s true for the group is also true for the individual. It’s simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness.
- ▪← WritingRegression to the MeanHow AI is quietly making your team fragileJuly 23, 2026 · 19 min read“If we all reacted the same way, we’d be predictable, and there’s always more than one way to view a situation.
- ▪What’s true for the group is also true for the individual.
- ▪It’s simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness.
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| Original publisher | Stvn |
| Canonical URL | https://stvn.sh/writing/regression-to-the-mean |
| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:13:30 +0000 |
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← WritingRegression to the MeanHow AI is quietly making your team fragileJuly 23, 2026 · 19 min read“If we all reacted the same way, we’d be predictable, and there’s always more than one way to view a situation. What’s true for the group is also true for the individual. It’s simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It’s slow death.”Major Motoko Kusanagi, Ghost in the Shell (1995)The models are good enough now that the surface looks the same whether or not anything real is underneath. You can’t read a candidate the way you used to. This is about what that’s doing to your team, one hire at a time.Everyone optimized. Nobody gained.Whichever side of the table you sit on, you’re already caught in this.
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