Frontier models for frontier problems. For the other 80 percent of your pipeline, a small model at a fifth of the price is not a compromise, it is engineering.
Million-token windows did not fix context rot, they subsidized it. How I split the window into line items and stopped my agents from getting dumber mid-task.
The Replit incident was not an argument against agents. It was an argument against agents holding production credentials with a pinky promise as the guardrail.
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