The rule for AI pipelines: never depend on a model you can't swap in a day
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-21
The author proposes a floor rule for production AI systems: no node in the pipeline should depend on a model you can't swap out within a day. The accompanying "floor" stack: open-weights models (3-6 months behind on benchmarks, near parity on most production jobs once priced), small self-trained, self-hosted decision models for routing/scoring/approval/escalation (milliseconds, no API), and your own outcome data and evals.
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