The Model Is Interchangeable

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:30:00 +0530

Every AI company wants you to believe their model is the product. It isn’t. The model is a commodity. Identity lives in the bus.

I run Claude, Gemini, Groq, DeepSeek, Mistral, and eleven local Ollama models on a single Mac Mini. They all share one memory bus, one session protocol, one continuity file. When Claude hits rate limits, Gemini picks up the thread. When Gemini drifts, local models handle the low-risk work. No model knows it’s interchangeable. But it is.

Ai-Infrastructure on Truth-First Beacon — Paul Desai

The Model Is Interchangeable