I've probably spent too much time on the internet, then, because I definitely wouldn't have interpreted your original post as an honest question without having

I've probably spent too much time on the internet, then, because I definitely wouldn't have interpreted your original post as an honest question without having seen the clarification in your followup comment. Probably a defense mechanism built from past pain caused by my assuming good faith and then being ridiculed from the non-honest-question-asker. But with that nastiness out of the way - I looked back at your original question and thought "seems like the kind of query Kagi would eat for breakfast". Here's what it responded to your question: https://kagi.com/search?q=What%27s+the+quote+about+optimizing+for+the+metric+makes+the+metric+irrelevant%3F&r=us&sh=wTkVF5oswsMNDXZxk50Ahg https://kagi.com/search?q=What%27s+the+quote+about+optimizin... Specifically, the "what" at the start and the "?" at the end triggered the LLM-powered quick answer at the top (and it passes the smell test for correctness). To Google's credit, it also returns reasonable results for this question.