Two valid product strategies: bet on frontier models getting cheaper, or cheap models getting smarter
tobowers · x · 2026-09-23
Toby Shorin lays out two equally valid ways to think about current model capabilities: design your product around frontier models assuming they'll get cheaper, or design around cheap intelligence assuming it'll get better. In a follow-up he notes the two paths are subtly different — cheap currently equals fast.
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