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* 11. Drift to low performance — a goal that erodes toward actual performance, so a
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* Reinforcing loop ratchets both downward.
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*
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* Next, the dynamic the book is named for, and the one the gallery has saved until a
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* reader knows every piece it needs:
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*
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* 12. Overshoot and collapse — a Reinforcing engine running on a *non-renewable*
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* Stock (the first with no inflow): it overshoots the
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* limit instead of settling at it, the dark twin of
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* "Limits to growth" — the ceiling erodes, so it crashes.
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*
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* Last, the language pointed at a live debate — a classic trap (Shifting the burden to
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* the intervenor, ch. 5) wearing today's clothes:
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*
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* 13. AI deskilling spiral — handing the burden of code quality to AI atrophies the
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* Expertise that holds quality up, so the team leans on AI
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* harder and Technical debt spirals: addiction, not a fix.
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*
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* These are plain data built from the same tested constructors the store uses
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* (factory.ts), so every sample is a valid Model by construction. `build()`
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* mints fresh ids on each call, so loading a sample twice never collides.
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}
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/**
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* Overshoot and collapse — the dark twin of "Limits to growth". The same
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* Reinforcing engine runs, but the limit here is a *non-renewable* Resource that
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* only depletes: a Stock with no inflow, the first in the gallery. An economy
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* (Capital) lives off it — extraction grows with both the Resource left and the
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* Capital deployed (Resource, Capital → [+] → extraction), and the revenue is
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* reinvested as new Capital (extraction → [+] → investment → Capital), so the loop
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* Capital → extraction → investment → Capital carries no `−` → Reinforcing. Capital
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* climbs and extraction accelerates, but every unit burned is gone for good, so the
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* Resource crosses the break-even level, the engine starves, and depreciation
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* (Capital → [+] → depreciation, a Balancing drain) takes Capital down: it peaks,
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* then collapses. Contrast "Predator and prey", whose prey regrows and so settles
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* into oscillation — a finite Resource cannot, so it overshoots and crashes instead.
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*/
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function overshootAndCollapse(): Model {
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// Resource on the left drains only downward (no inflow). Capital on the right runs
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// a full Source → investment → Capital → depreciation → Sink column. The two
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// coupling links — Capital → extraction and extraction → investment — cross in the
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// open centre, where the R badge lands.
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const resource = makeStock({ x: -240, y: 0 }, "Resource")
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resource.initialValue = 1000
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const extractionSink = makeCloud({ x: -240, y: 360 })
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const extraction = makeFlow({ x: -240, y: 160 }, "extraction", resource.id, extractionSink.id)
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// extraction = factor × Resource × Capital (both `+`): more capital extracts
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// faster, scarcer resource slower. The bilinear term the non-negative floor tames.
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extraction.rule = { kind: "proportional", factor: 0.0004 }
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const capital = makeStock({ x: 240, y: 0 }, "Capital")
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capital.initialValue = 5
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const investmentSource = makeCloud({ x: 240, y: -360 })
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const investment = makeFlow({ x: 240, y: -160 }, "investment", investmentSource.id, capital.id)
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// investment = factor × extraction (its one `+` input): the revenue reinvested —
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// a Flow feeding a Flow, the edge that closes the Reinforcing loop through Capital.
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investment.rule = { kind: "proportional", factor: 0.5 }
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const depreciationSink = makeCloud({ x: 240, y: 360 })
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const depreciation = makeFlow({ x: 240, y: 160 }, "depreciation", capital.id, depreciationSink.id)
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// depreciation = factor × Capital (its `+` input): the Balancing drain that wins
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// once the Resource can no longer feed investment.
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depreciation.rule = { kind: "proportional", factor: 0.04 }
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return model(
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"Overshoot and collapse",
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[
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resource,
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extractionSink,
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extraction,
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capital,
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investmentSource,
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investment,
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depreciationSink,
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depreciation,
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],
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[
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link(resource, extraction, "+"),
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link(capital, extraction, "+"),
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link(extraction, investment, "+"),
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link(capital, depreciation, "+"),
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],
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// Capital starts at 5, overshoots to ~250 by t≈39, and collapses back near its
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// starting level by t=150 — the full boom-and-bust arc, no dead tail.
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{ start: 0, stop: 150, dt: 1 },
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)
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}
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/**
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* AI deskilling spiral — a classic trap in today's clothes: "Shifting the burden to
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* the intervenor" (Thinking in Systems, ch. 5), where leaning on an outside fixer
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* atrophies your own capacity to solve the problem, so you depend on the fixer ever
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* more. Here the intervenor is AI. Technical debt drives reliance on it (the more cruft
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* and delivery pressure, the more you reach for the model: Technical debt → [+] → AI
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* reliance); AI churns out plausible code that adds debt (AI reliance → [+] → debt
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* accrual) and lets skills lapse (AI reliance → [+] → atrophy, draining Expertise); and
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* a thinner-skilled team refactors less (Expertise → [+] → refactoring, the Balancing
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* payoff that now weakens). The loop Technical debt → AI reliance → atrophy → Expertise
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* → refactoring → Technical debt carries two `−` (the two outflows) → Reinforcing: the
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* spiral. The hopeful brake is learning — practice pulling Expertise back toward its
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* ceiling (skill ceiling → [+], Expertise → [−] → learning: a Balancing loop) — but
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* tuned here it loses to the spiral. (Code quality and lead time aren't nodes: quality
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* reads as the inverse of Technical debt, lead time as the inverse of Expertise;
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* "model price" lives in the AI-reliance factor — cheaper models, higher reliance.)
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*/
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function aiDeskillingSpiral(): Model {
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// Two lanes — Expertise on top, Technical debt below — each a full Source → inflow →
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// Stock → outflow → Sink. The AI reliance Converter sits between them, reading the
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// debt below and feeding both atrophy (top lane) and debt accrual: the couplings that
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// close the Reinforcing spiral cross the open centre.
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const skillCeiling = makeConverter({ x: -360, y: -300 }, "skill ceiling")
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skillCeiling.rule = { kind: "constant", value: 100 }
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const learningSource = makeCloud({ x: -540, y: -120 })
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const expertise = makeStock({ x: -180, y: -120 }, "Expertise")
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expertise.initialValue = 70
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const learning = makeFlow({ x: -360, y: -120 }, "learning", learningSource.id, expertise.id)
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// learning = factor × (skill ceiling − Expertise): practice pulls skill back up — the
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// Balancing brake. The further from mastery, the harder you study.
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learning.rule = { kind: "gap", factor: 0.04 }
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const atrophySink = makeCloud({ x: 300, y: -120 })
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const atrophy = makeFlow({ x: 80, y: -120 }, "atrophy", expertise.id, atrophySink.id)
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// atrophy = factor × AI reliance: the more you offload to AI, the faster unused skills
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// lapse — the side effect that makes this an addiction, not a fix.
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atrophy.rule = { kind: "proportional", factor: 0.6 }
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const accrualSource = makeCloud({ x: -540, y: 120 })
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const debt = makeStock({ x: -180, y: 120 }, "Technical debt")
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debt.initialValue = 20
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const accrual = makeFlow({ x: -360, y: 120 }, "debt accrual", accrualSource.id, debt.id)
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// debt accrual = factor × AI reliance: AI emits plausible code faster than anyone
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// reviews it, so debt grows the more you lean on it.
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accrual.rule = { kind: "proportional", factor: 0.9 }
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const refactorSink = makeCloud({ x: 300, y: 120 })
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const refactoring = makeFlow({ x: 80, y: 120 }, "refactoring", debt.id, refactorSink.id)
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// refactoring = factor × Expertise × Technical debt: skilled teams pay debt down in
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// proportion to how much there is — the Balancing payoff the spiral starves.
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refactoring.rule = { kind: "proportional", factor: 0.0009 }
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const reliance = makeConverter({ x: -180, y: 0 }, "AI reliance")
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// AI reliance = factor × Technical debt: the factor is how cheap and available models
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// are — lower model price, higher reliance per unit of debt.
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reliance.rule = { kind: "proportional", factor: 0.1 }
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return model(
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"AI deskilling spiral",
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[
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skillCeiling,
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learningSource,
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expertise,
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learning,
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atrophySink,
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atrophy,
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accrualSource,
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debt,
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accrual,
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refactorSink,
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refactoring,
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reliance,
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],
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[
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link(skillCeiling, learning, "+"),
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link(expertise, learning, "-"),
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link(reliance, atrophy, "+"),
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link(debt, reliance, "+"),
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link(reliance, accrual, "+"),
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link(expertise, refactoring, "+"),
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link(debt, refactoring, "+"),
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],
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// Expertise slides 70 → ~6 and Technical debt spirals 20 → ~150 over the window —
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// the Reinforcing loop clearly taking off, stopped (like "Escalation") before it
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// runs away off-chart.
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{ start: 0, stop: 50, dt: 1 },
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)
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}
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/** The gallery, ordered simplest first. */
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export const SAMPLES: Sample[] = [
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{ title: "Bathtub", blurb: "A stock filled and drained — no feedback yet.", build: bathtub },
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@@ -624,4 +785,14 @@ export const SAMPLES: Sample[] = [
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blurb: "Goals erode toward actual: a Reinforcing slide downhill.",
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build: driftToLowPerformance,
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},
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{
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title: "Overshoot and collapse",
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blurb: "A growth engine burns a finite Resource: it peaks, then crashes.",
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build: overshootAndCollapse,
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},
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{
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title: "AI deskilling spiral",
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blurb: "Leaning on AI to hold quality erodes the expertise that holds it: shifting the burden.",
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build: aiDeskillingSpiral,
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},
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]
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