Rent the frontier, own the floor: what to hold before the door closes
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-21
The author lays out a two-handed strategy for frontier models: don't quit the frontier—it's the best tool on earth, use it—but know exactly what you own the day the door closes. The floor: open-weights models (3-6 months behind on benchmarks, near parity on most production jobs once priced), small self-trained self-hosted decision models (route, score, approve, escalate in milliseconds, no API), and your own outcome data and evals. The motto: rent the frontier, own the floor.
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