Operator directive, given before the result was in: if it's the base, abandon
h300 and the base too. The dose-response said base (18.5% of 22.2%), so it fired.
Live gen seat is /tank/aimodels/qwen38-27b-heresy-nvfp4-mixed again, restored
from .env.bak-coldfusion-L35-20260820. The h300 env is preserved at
.env.bak-h300-abandoned-20260821.
The clincher, same probe pointed at heresy:
Cold-Fusion stock P(<think>) 0.1850
Cold-Fusion L35 0.2048
Cold-Fusion h300 0.2216
heresy (restored) not in the top 20, <0.002
A >100x gap between the families, which is why no rollback inside Cold-Fusion
would have helped -- stock and L35 leak at nearly the h300 rate.
Verified after rollback: 0/30 leaks and 0 empty on the same instrument that
scored h300 at 8/30, with the EXISTING enable_thinking:false config; KV pool
403,065 tok / 1.54x, heresy's exact documented baseline; 7/7 aliases; vision
intact. No LiteLLM change was needed, so the chat_template_kwargs fix is left
unapplied -- it worked, but it was a workaround for a base we no longer serve.
Cost, stated plainly: 8/100 refusals becomes 29/100, a 3.6x regression on the
axis the whole Heretic-300 run existed to move. Accepted deliberately.
What carries forward is the methodology, none of which lived in the Cold-Fusion
weights: direction_scope=0 beating per-layer on a merged base, aggression not
being the lever, PR #317 silently dropping the MTP head on save, the MPOA and
sink-screen reasoning, the graft/KL/catatonia/export harnesses, and the finding
that a pristine MTP graft accepts as well as an in-band edit.
New acceptance gate earned here: run think_prior.py on a candidate's STOCK
weights before committing GPU time. It is a ~10s CPU measurement and it would
have disqualified Cold-Fusion before the 300-trial study ever started. Heretic's
objective has no format-compliance term at all -- the same blindness that removed
the self-harm guardrail.
Nothing deleted. Every Cold-Fusion artifact, the 300-trial Optuna journal and
catatonia-T260.json remain on disk. Abandon means stop serving, not rm.
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