A million ai satellites sounds inevitable, the bottleneck was never the compute

The starmind pitch about a million satellites for orbital ai compute is the kind of render that makes the singularity feel right around the corner. Stack enough silicon in orbit and intelligence falls out. I do not think that is how this works. We keep throwing hardware at the problem while the software loop wrapping the models stays genuinely fragile. What actually caps useful agentic work today is not flops. It is reliability across long multi step tasks. Agents still drift, lose the thread halfway through, and report success on output that looks correct and is not. You can give a flaky loop all the compute in orbit and it just fails faster and more expensively. The real progress is happening in the boring orchestration layer, the plan, execute, check loop that keeps a long task from collapsing. I see it in tools like verdent leaning on an explicit check rather than trusting a bigger model to be right by default, but the pattern is bigger than any one tool. That is the unsexy bottleneck and no satellite fixes it. Maybe orbital datacenters make sense for latency or sovereignty reasons, i am not arguing the hardware. I just think the compute is the ceiling story is a story, and the actual ceiling is still software that cannot tell when it is wrong.