https://www.youngju.dev/blog 천천히 올바르게. AI Researcher & DevOps Engineer Youngju's tech blog. GPU/CUDA, LLM, MLOps, Kubernetes AI workloads, distributed training, and data engineering. ko fjvbn2003@gmail.com (Youngju Kim) fjvbn2003@gmail.com (Youngju Kim) Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.youngju.dev/blog/2026-07-11-successful-companies-go-blind.en https://www.youngju.dev/blog/2026-07-11-successful-companies-go-blind.en Ian Reppel’s essay argues that successful companies suffer from what he calls "competence blindness" — like the Mexican cavefish that suppresses its own eyes, they stop expressing careful engineering because the environment no longer rewards it. This is active suppression, not simple neglect, and it is different from classic disruption. This piece represents that argument faithfully and then looks at how it shows up in engineering organizations specifically: the legacy system nobody may question, dashboards that stay green while reality rots, and process that hardens into scar tissue. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT fjvbn2003@gmail.com (Youngju Kim) engineering-cultureorganizationslegacymetricsleadership https://www.youngju.dev/blog/2026-07-11-successful-companies-go-blind.ja https://www.youngju.dev/blog/2026-07-11-successful-companies-go-blind.ja Ian Reppel のエッセイは、成功した会社が彼の言う「能力の失明（competence blindness）」に陥ると述べます。メキシコの洞窟魚が自らの目を抑制するように、環境がもはや報いないために、丁寧なエンジニアリングを発現しなくなるのです。これは単なる放置ではなく能動的な抑制であり、古典的な破壊的イノベーションとも異なります。本稿はその主張を忠実に伝えたうえで、それがエンジニアリング組織でどのように現れるかを見ます。誰も問えないレガシー、現実が腐る間も緑のままのダッシュボード、そして瘢痕組織のように硬直したプロセスです。 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT fjvbn2003@gmail.com (Youngju Kim) engineering-cultureorganizationslegacymetricsleadership https://www.youngju.dev/blog/2026-07-11-successful-companies-go-blind https://www.youngju.dev/blog/2026-07-11-successful-companies-go-blind Ian Reppel의 에세이는 성공한 회사가 그가 "역량 실명(competence blindness)"이라 부르는 상태에 빠진다고 말합니다. 멕시코 동굴 물고기가 스스로 눈을 억제하듯, 환경이 더 이상 보상하지 않기 때문에 꼼꼼한 엔지니어링을 발현하지 않게 되는 것입니다. 이것은 단순한 방치가 아니라 능동적 억제이며, 고전적 파괴적 혁신과도 다릅니다. 이 글은 그 주장을 충실히 옮긴 뒤, 그것이 엔지니어링 조직에서 어떻게 나타나는지를 봅니다. 아무도 질문하지 못하는 레거시, 현실이 썩는 동안에도 초록색인 대시보드, 그리고 흉터 조직처럼 굳어버린 프로세스입니다. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT fjvbn2003@gmail.com (Youngju Kim) engineering-cultureorganizationslegacymetricsleadership