Same size, same price, seven times the score

DeepSeek re-post-trained the model it already shipped and took its agentic coding score from 7.3 to 54.4 with no change in parameter count and no change in the fourteen-cent price — which, if it holds outside the vendor's own harness, says the bottleneck was never scale. Then a paper arguing agent memory should live inside the backbone rather than in a database next to it, and the forensic timeline of the Hugging Face intrusion, where detection fired correctly and the triage queue lost.