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first seen Jun 13, 2026 · last seen Jun 13, 2026 · published Jun 13, 2026

Posted by	vednig

Featured on 1 day: June 13, 2026.

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2026-06-13
Open models now match closed ones on most practical tasks. The shift isn't ideological—it's that you can't build a serious autonomous system on an API you don't control. Outages, rate limits, and surprise deprecations aren't abstractions when you're on-call.