When Architectural Alignment Meets Code Stability: The Case for Saying No

When a hyped architecture paper aligns with your existing design, the engineering answer is often no—adopt the rigor, not the code. This case illustrates why SAGE's value lay in validation methodology and formalization, not architecture; adopting it wholesale would have meant a costly, pointless rewrite. The deeper lesson: resist benchmark cargo-culting across domains. Applying dialogue-memory numbers to code graphs manufactures false credibility, not real engineering.