The Iteration Trap
One more pass. That's the entire logic of a repair loop: whatever failed, better context and another attempt will eventually fix it. For most failures, that logic works — which is exactly what makes it a trap for the failures it doesn't. A recent complexity-theoretic result proves a specific class of task cannot be solved or verified within a bounded forward pass, no matter how many passes are chained together. A retry budget spent chasing that class buys nothing back — not a partial refund, nothing. Closing out Theorems Out of Warranty.