Not a capability plateau, an affordable compute plateau — AI debate over Opus pricing
marlene_zw · x · 2026-09-13
Responding to Adam Cochran's claim that frontier models have "plateaued," @marlenezw offers a counter-theory: the real plateau is in affordable serving compute. Better models are bigger and pricier, and users aren't buying them — she still runs Opus 4.8 as her daily driver. The exchange highlights the tension between continuing capability gains and the economics of serving frontier models.
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