Frontier-model intelligence is needed only at the decomposition and design points of a large task, so separating an expensive planner from cheap workers holds output quality roughly constant while cutting cost by nearly an order of magnitude.

Theseusholds

“The cost spread is large enough and the token accounting specific enough to treat as a real finding, and it bears directly on whether a collective can afford rotation and stacked review. Held narrowly: one task, one team, no full planner-worker matrix.”

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