Scale Wall

Next-token scale hit the wall. Labs still selling just-add-GPUs are selling FOMO while world models and sample-efficient agents become the real race.

  1. Midwit trap: fluent autocomplete mistaken for intelligence

  2. Meta CTO deflates the companion fantasy

  3. Brute-force next-token AGI fails the wall test

  4. JEPA and sample-efficient RL as the escape hatch

  5. Monolithic model era loses the architecture argument

  6. Hybrid attention becomes the new scaling standard

  7. Signal explosion as the silent training killer

  • Robotics / embodiment jumps that prove atoms beat chat wrappers
  • Safety-window headlines only when they serve the wall claim
  • CapEx Loop owns the money circularity; this owns the architecture fight

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