Jokes aside, I have been aware of System Cards for a while, but found them sort of irrelevant. As the tide of AI has started lapping at my profession, and I have found myself suddenly spending 1/4 of my day trying out Shiny New Stuff, Model Cards suddenly seem immensely interesting and useful.

I hope that the industry keeps publishing them, even if there is a muted response, because they are quite valuable snapshots of the state of the art, as measured against interesting dimensions, at a particular point in time.

Someone is going to collate all these model cards on a timeline and plot some charts into a _killer_ blog post in about 5 years.

All I can find via google is that the term is used in Bridge (the card game) to coordinate play between partners.