capability vs performance

Why Every Smart Hiring Process Now Fails for the Same Reason

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Illustration showing why modern hiring processes fail to measure real capability in the age of AI optimization

Your most rigorous hiring process. Your carefully designed interviews. Your validated assessment methods. All of them stopped working in 2024—not because you’re doing it wrong, but because the thing you’re trying to measure became fundamentally unobservable. The senior developer you hired six months ago sailed through technical interviews. Solved complex algorithms elegantly. Explained architectural decisions … Why Every Smart Hiring Process Now Fails for the Same Reason

The Collapse of Now

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Exploding clock symbolizing collapse of present-moment verification when AI made instantaneous signals perfectly fakeable, leaving time as civilization's last reliable verifier

Why the Present Moment Became Unreliable—And Time Became Civilization’s Last Verifiable Signal For two hundred thousand years, the present moment was humanity’s most reliable source of truth. If you saw someone perform a task, they possessed the capability. If you heard someone speak with expertise, they held knowledge. If you observed behavior, you witnessed reality. … The Collapse of Now