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AI hits the target, misses the point

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A metric is a stand-in for something you actually care about. The moment it becomes a target, AI can hit it perfectly, and the tighter it hits the number, the further it can drift from the thing the number stood for. The measure stops measuring what it measured. Which of your targets could be hit perfectly while the point gets missed?