https://jeffgeiser.dev/tags/compound-ai/ Recent content in Compound-Ai on Jeff Geiser Hugo en-US Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jeffgeiser.dev/posts/the-hard-part-of-sovereign-ai-isnt-the-models/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jeffgeiser.dev/posts/the-hard-part-of-sovereign-ai-isnt-the-models/ <p><strong>Everyone&rsquo;s composing small specialized models now, and everyone&rsquo;s moving them onto their own hardware. What happens when these two collide.</strong></p> <p><em>By Jeff Geiser — October 2026</em></p> <hr> <p>Two shifts are happening.</p> <p>First, we stopped shipping a single model. If you&rsquo;re building anything serious now, you&rsquo;re composing. A small classifier to triage the request, a retrieval step, a generator, a verifier to catch the generator, etc.. Three to five specialized models wired into a pipeline, each doing their job. The research crew named it compound AI. A composed pipeline of small models beats one big model on accuracy and cost.. as long as you keep the coordination overhead in check.</p>