Your 100 Billion Parameter Behemoth is a Liability

The “bigger is better” era of AI is hitting a wall. We are in an LLM bubble, characterized by ruinous inference costs and diminishing returns. The future belongs to Agentic AI powered by specialized Small Language Models (SLMs). Think of it as a shift from hiring a single expensive genius to running a highly efficient digital factory. It’s cheaper, faster, and frankly, the only way to make agents work at scale.