C.19.1:0.1 - What Goes Wrong If Missed

A team treats “more agentic”, “more automated”, “more specialized”, or “works on this benchmark” as proof that one bearer should displace a more general scale-amenable bearer. Another team repeats the opposite error: it invokes the Bitter Lesson as permission to ignore safety, cost, task-family fit, or a narrow heuristic that actually wins inside the declared scale window. In both cases, the selector loses parity, waiver, and scale-window discipline.