Future Direction: Long-Term Capability Preservation as First-Class Design Problem
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Description
Sixth of six open design directions (Section 12.6). The paper's Section 14 pivot: 'Future systems could treat that sustainability gap as a first-class design problem, not a downstream evaluation metric.' Two sub-questions separate measurement gap from design gap. First: whether the empirical claims motivating the lens (comprehension loss, complexity accrual, technical-debt persistence, neural-connectivity effects, early-career hiring decline) are measurable at session granularity; the current harness exposes no per-session signal for comprehension or convention drift. Second: whether architecture can respond to such measurements once they exist, and whether the harness is even the right locus of action (as opposed to IDE, organisation, or human development loop).
Key claims
- Capability-preservation is the most consequential open question
Relations
- Long-Term Capability Preservation Lens --[motivates]--> Future Direction: Long-Term Capability Preservation as First-Class Design Problem
- Paradox of Supervision --[motivates]--> Future Direction: Long-Term Capability Preservation as First-Class Design Problem