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+title: "When designing an improvement for a system, you"
+date: 2026-02-27
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+When designing an improvement for a system, you typically don’t want it to get worse. Good strategy:
+- figure out an error rate for the old system
+- compute the agreement between the new system + the old system
+- if the agreement is significantly less than the error rate of the old approach you have a problem