Three unrelated reports expose the same mechanism. The CVE-2022-0492 container escapes, the AI-agent 'power-protection inversion' that makes stronger agents less secure, and the altermagnet strain-tuning paper all describe the identical failure mode: optimizations introduced to boost performance or density (kernel isolation shortcuts, agent capability scaling, qubit anharmonicity via strain) simultaneously erode the boundaries meant to keep the system contained. This pattern is invisible when each domain is covered separately because none of the source pieces connect the Linux kernel flaw to the 100-agent test results to the superconducting qubit preprint. The same inversion now appears in non-digital systems (male-biased CKD research that 'optimizes' for half the population and thereby fails the other half).