If your system accepts every request, it will eventually fail under its own load. Context After enabling boundary checks, another issue surfaced: Even when I could say no, I often didn’t. Not because I had to. Because I was still running a deeper process: If (I can help) → I should help That logic created a different kind of failure. Not immediate. Gradual. The Bug: Unbounded Execution My system behaved like this: While (requests exist) → accept → execute No cap. No concurrency limit. No awareness of total load. It worked—for a while. Then performance degraded. Burnout = Resource Leak Burnout didn’t show up as a crash. It showed up as a leak. Energy drained faster than it was restored Focus fragmented across too many threads Recovery time increased Nothing broke all at once. The system just became slower, less precise, harder to maintain. Why “Helpfulness” Doesn’t Scale At small volume, saying yes feels harmless. At scale, it becomes unsustainable.…