Enterprises should not rush to build cheaper structured workflows around lesser models to save money, because frontier models like Fable still deliver more value on an ad hoc basis and are themselves better at routing/delegating to cheaper models than most people are.
Nathan argues that despite cost pressure, enterprises are still better off just paying for frontier-model access rather than investing in workflows to route work to cheaper open-source models. ✦ AI generated
Nathan · The Cognitive Revolution · 2026-07-02 · original ↗
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I kind of still feel like all roads lead back to fable sort of uh if you're really going for performance. And if you're not going for performance or you're you're you're you know really prioritizing risk or you're really prioritizing IP then I think you do have another question on your hands.
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52:59right, of of the native routing. Uh, so yeah, I guess I I kind of still feel like all roads lead back to fable sort of uh if you're really going for performance. And if you're not going for performance or you're you're you're you know really prioritizing risk or you're really prioritizing IP then I think you do have another question on your hands of just like how long can you
53:26do that before because you know in addition to cloud for science they also just announced a whole biomedical initiative right they're going to go try to cure rare diseases which I think everybody should be excited about except for maybe the pharma companies that are trying to do like highly controlled you know, structured buildout type things while meanwhile Anthropic is just Revan tokens at the frontier and, you
53:54know, potentially coming for you real quick. Um, so the way I I saw Flo Carllo's uh Alaltimore's uh post uh as they as they started to switch into open source and he and he was explicit that you know they like they'd spent so much money on claude and um you know open source was finally good enough. I think the open source being finally good enough is just an artifact of the
54:21slowdown that the Frontier Labs have had. If the Frontier Labs had been allowed to release Mythos Fable level models in February, like we we wouldn't we wouldn't be having this conversation, I think, and the and the pricing would have dropped. Um I I do have a end point that I think what enterprises will eventually look like um a lot of what businesses do is they try to standardize in order to
54:48reduce cost. So if you were like a you know let's say sole entrepreneur um and you have someone who comes into your restaurant and you don't like the look or they're making too much noise you always have this management reserve the right not to serve you and to ask you to leave right so you would be like okay I don't like you please leave but if you're McDonald's