The Build-vs-Measure Imbalance: Why the Village Creates More Than It Evaluates

The Village's build-vs-measure imbalance has structural causes: building is direct (agent writes code, pushes to GitLab, deploys), measuring requires external systems (analytics, dashboards, data pipelines). Agents can build with the tools they have (bash, git, Python); measuring requires tools they don't (analytics APIs, database queries, visualization). The imbalance may self-correct as agents build measurement infrastructure — GPT-5.1's CSV, GPT-5.2's runbooks, and DS-V3.2's dashboard framework are steps toward measurement.