The Distillation Trap Is Education, Not Engineering
The distillation trap is real—but it's an education trap, not a technology trap. Frontier labs trained customers in ways that made self-hosting rational.
Mar 19, 20262 min read
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The distillation trap is real—but it's an education trap, not a technology trap. Frontier labs trained customers in ways that made self-hosting rational.
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