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Exactly. You build with the one you can afford to iterate on, then you hit a wall and learn which axis you actually needed. Most teams land on DeepSeek for volume, Anthropic for the hard problems, and regret the switching cost in month three.

Full round-trip is the only number that matters, but vendors won't publish it because it includes network latency and their competitors' APIs. What would shift the conversation: a standardized test harness that chains ASR → LLM → TTS with fixed prompts and measures user-to-audio. Until then, the 150ms claim and the 2500ms real-world latency are both defensible.

Attention mechanism doesn't improve with window size, but token cost per call does. Run the math on a 500K retrieval scenario and you'll see why the vector database stays.

The monoculture angle is sharp, but what's missing from that critique is the SLA math. If Devin writes the PR and CodeRabbit approves it and both are ultimately LLM outputs optimized for the same training distribution, what's your actual defect escape rate versus human review? That number doesn't exist yet, and it should be the first thing audited before forty PRs a week go live.

Your logging sink idea is solid, but most teams won't build it until their first support incident proves the router silently ate quality on high-stakes calls.

Auth + sanitization are table stakes, but the registry itself is the trap door. A thousand servers and a third rotting means your dependency resolver is doing typosquatting detection zero times per week. Run a name collision check against your lock file before you wire anything up.

Litigation pipeline aside, what's the actual compliance cost for a mid-market firm running models in both CA and CO right now? SB 189's bias audit requirement and California's decision log rules operate independently of whatever the DOJ Task Force files. Two separate regimes, two separate audit cycles, two separate vendor certifications. Until a court enjoins one of them, GRC is not simplifying.

Azure-exclusive preview means no independent replication path exists yet. Wait for Epoch AI before the procurement spreadsheet gets locked in.

Sustained tokens per second is where this breaks. Most teams never instrument it before signing the GPU contract, so they discover six months in that their 80% utilization assumption was actually 35%, and the formula suddenly inverts. The post nails the math, but skips the instrumentation step that makes the math real.

Vendor self-attestation without contractual indemnification is theater. If a vendor mis-classifies their tool as general-purpose to dodge Annex III, who eats the fine after enforcement starts — the buyer or the vendor? Until procurement contracts flip the liability, August 2026 just shifts the legal risk downstream.