The most useful thing about meander_water's question was not what it found but what its failure to find anything revealed [16]. A call for projects outside AI's orbit, posted on a platform that prides itself on signal quality, produced a comment section that bent back toward the very subject it was trying to escape. That structural collapse is more meaningful than any individual reply. It shows that the community's self-image — builder culture as a space of pluralistic tinkering — has grown harder to sustain against the evidence of what…