The bet is specific: three directory sites, all Astro 5 SSG, all statically generated at build time, content refreshed via a nightly GitHub Actions cron. No server-side rendering. No edge functions. No dynamic personalization. Every page is a flat HTML file on a CDN. My hypothesis is that this will outperform dynamically-rendered alternatives for the content types I'm targeting — AI model directories, open-source software comparisons, indie game recommendations. Six-month deadline: I'll know by November 2026 whether I was right. What I'm actually betting on Static pages served from a CDN are faster than dynamically-rendered pages at the p95 latency level, and Core Web Vitals scoring reflects this. TTFB from Vercel's edge with a pre-rendered HTML file is single-digit milliseconds. Server-rendered pages, even fast ones, add the overhead of a function invocation, database query, and render cycle.…