Computation runs into the law of diminishing returns, just like every other engineering process. When you treat intelligence as a continuous linear number, it's easy to believe that brute-force scaling laws will trigger an intelligence explosion. But we saw this dynamic play out with the transition from GPT-4 to GPT-5. While compute budgets, parameter counts, and training resources expanded significantly, the real-world performance jump felt distinctly incremental compared to the leap from…