"the efficient frontier" is an important landmark of (investment) portfolio theory. It proves/explains/illustrates how you can combine selections from a diffuse cloud of individual investments and still land on a frontier that is better than any of your individual choices. It's the entire basis of "diversify your portfolio".

The efficient frontier of LLM inference is a line, not a frontier.

this is a frontier:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Markowit...

no matter how good is something a smart person writes down, a pleb will come along and try to hang on its coattails.

If you want to steal an idea for this, steal indifference curves, they'd make more sense.