Coding, for some future definition of "small-model" that expands to include today's frontier models. What I commented a few days ago on codex-spark release:

"""

We're going to see a further bifurcation in inference use-cases in the next 12 months. I'm expecting this distinction to become prominent:

(A) Massively parallel (optimize for token/$)

(B) Serial low latency (optimize for token/s).

Users will switch between A and B depending on need.

Examples of (A):

- "Use subagents to search this 1M line codebase for DRY violations subject to $spec."

An example of (B):

- "Diagnose this one specific bug."

- "Apply these text edits".

(B) is used in funnels to unblock (A).

"""