Even if this hypothesis that smaller specialized models are superior to larger models in a task as broad as software development, hyperscalers and the hyperfunded would still maintain a massive advantage in that they could just train 1000x more models than anyone else.

And let’s be real. If this were some conspiracy that OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic were tacitly or overtly conspiring on, I’m pretty sure Elon or Zucc would ruin it to get ahead