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by nullc 37 days ago
Small models are more useful for "doing stuff" than "knowing stuff" to begin with. Add in an agentic harness and a small model can happily read more current information on demand (including from e.g. a local wikipedia snapshot).
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This feels increasingly true.

A lot of useful AI work is shifting from “knowing more” to “working with more context”, files, recordings, repos, screenshots, browsing history, etc.

Once that happens, memory and orchestration start mattering much more than raw model size.