The price of intelligence is falling. The price of judgement is not.

Frontier tokens are an order of magnitude cheaper than a year ago, and the gap between labs is closing. The scarce asset is no longer the model — it is the discipline to point it at the right problem, on trustworthy data, with a human accountable for the result.

That is the whole argument for an editorial desk — and, increasingly, for the firms that deploy this technology inside real businesses.