we ran six setups on writingbench — opus, sonnet, codex, and three open-source models on octomind. the most expensive model lost on the metric that matters. $5.21 vs $0.10. 71.0 vs 74.8 final score.

This is the sovereignty problem in one headline. You can rent the most powerful tools on earth. But if you don't control the switch, you don't own the workflow.