All That Glisters Is Softmax: Shiny-Object Interns, Airplane-Magazine Execs, and Why AI Labs Can Only Bake In Half the Scars

Why do an eager intern with a Hacker News blog post, a C-level executive stepping off an airplane with an in-flight magazine, and a trillion-parameter LLM all walk straight into the exact same production bog? And why even Google DeepMind can only bake half of our 600 scars into model weights.