Small Models, Big Skills: When Agent Frameworks Meet Industrial Reality
Compliance has a wonderful way of killing beautiful demos. In a demo, the agent calls a frontier model, loads a tool, reads a document, writes a decision, and everyone nods at the future. In a regulated company, the same workflow meets a less poetic checklist: where did the data go, who pays for the GPU time, can this run inside our perimeter, and why did the model spend twenty seconds “thinking” about a binary classification task? ...