"something that will work reliably and predictably for years" is not really the class of product being sold, unless you're using a fine-tuned SLM to do somethin

"something that will work reliably and predictably for years" is not really the class of product being sold, unless you're using a fine-tuned SLM to do something like classification. The vast majority of work being done with AI unfortunately benefits from being run on the biggest/best model.