Last month a model I'd been watching dropped its token price by half, and three people sent me the announcement within an hour. The implied question was always the same: when are you switching? My answer, these days, is: after it survives quarantine. Because the last time I swapped a model based on announcement-day excitement, everything looked fine for nine days. Then a scheduled job started emitting subtly malformed JSON — valid enough to parse, wrong enough to corrupt downstream state — ...