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Resisting Mode Gravity: Why Bigger LLMs Produce Mediocre Output

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Why swapping in a frontier LLM still yields polite boilerplate. Deconstructing Mode Gravity, the triple lock-in flywheel, Differential Diffing, and Model vs. Harness decoupling.
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