Debate: 95% of tasks are doable with low-end or open-source models, so frontier hype is over
Sellao93 · x · 2026-09-13
An exchange arguing frontier models matter less than the hype: one user claims 95% of what needs doing can be achieved with low-end or open-source models anchored to real business logic; another counters that existing capabilities are already enough — Nvidia + Palantir for enterprise, Google for consumers — while a third adds Opus 4.8 handles most of his coding tasks and the rest of the field feels "more of the same."
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