Stop Building Faster Horses

Cheap person-shaped agents are the $10 horse: where verification yield is uncharacterized, review load grows linearly with volume and governance problems get faster, not solved. The alternative is the production line - typed ingress, gated stages, clamped egress inside a rated envelope - whose recipe survives model swaps. Every claim in this piece is published at the grade its evidence supports: assertions carry the observation that would kill them, and the load-bearing predictions are pre-registered with stated priors and review dates.