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Shift focus from model benchmarks to the software surrounding your LLM
◆ 75RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack1mo ago
With inference costs plummeting, the model itself is becoming a commodity. Your differentiation now lies in the "harness"—how your software manages context, routing, and integration. Prioritize engineering the orchestration layer over chasing marginal gains in model performance.
Takeaways
- Inference costs are trending toward zero, commoditizing underlying model performance.
- Your competitive moat moves from model selection to the surrounding software infrastructure.
- Invest in orchestration and routing to maintain agility across multiple providers.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
This week’s news from Zed, Anthropic, and OpenRouter shows why better harnesses matter more than better models
fmode.me/n/this-weeks-news-from-zed-anthropic-and-openrouter-shows-why-better-harnesses-matter-more-than-better-models
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