Neil Lawrence: a powerful model makes a good oracle, a smaller one does the delegation
lawrennd · x · 2026-11-10
At SALT Conference London, Trent AI's Neil Lawrence (Cambridge professor) argued that a powerful model can serve as a good 'oracle' for an AI agent, while a much smaller model may be better suited for the operational work you delegate — a useful framing for layered model choices in agent architectures.
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