Huh...I'd disagree; I feel the fact I can use OS/Smaller mdoels for specific tasks is what makes my stack composable.
Especially for things frontier labs are not excelling at : voice (
@SarvamAI ), doc reading, languages, image, video, etc
I do agree though that the upcoming updates will keep wiping away more and more specialised smaller models, but I'm also concerned about my token costs. So any model that gives better intelligence/token >> more intelligence overall for me.
Boris Cherny, Claude Code creator at Anthrpic: "The more general model will always outperform the more specific model.
Don't try to use tiny models for stuff. Don't try to fine-tune. Don't try to do any of this stuff. There are some applications, there are some reasons to do this, but almost always try to bet on the more general model, if you can, if you have that flexibility.
And in general, what we see is maybe scaffolding can improve performance maybe 10%, 20%, something like this, but often these gains just get wiped out with the next model. So it's almost better to just wait for the next one."
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From "Lenny's Podcast" YouTube channel, (link in comment)