Model Routing Is Table Stakes. Here's the Real AI Edge

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What's really happening when AI execution gets cheaper but everything starts to feel the same?

The common story is that cheaper models make advanced work a commodity, but the reality is that value moves toward the people who can imagine better work, bring context to it, and give themselves permission to run the experiment.

In this episode, I share the inside scoop on why imagination x execution is becoming the operating question for AI teams.

Why the $9 model test and the $40 model test mean very different things
How cheap open execution becomes an engine, not the whole strategy
What the porch-mailer example reveals about new work no task list had captured
Where context, permission, and technical imagination meet
Why the Stripe migration story is really about prepared infrastructure

If you are building with AI, managing a team, or trying to understand where frontier spend still matters, the question is not just which model is cheapest. The question is whether your task list has changed.

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