{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0.0",
  "id": "artifact:when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves",
  "slug": "when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves",
  "title": "When Execution Gets Cheap, Advantage Moves",
  "subtitle": "Cheap AI model routing is table stakes. The real advantage is context-rich frontier scouting: finding the work nobody knew to put on the list.",
  "abstract": "A premium source-derived strategy artifact explaining why cheap AI execution commoditizes known work and moves advantage toward frontier scouting, better questions, verification, and workflow redesign.",
  "type": "teaching-artifact-worked-example",
  "status": "published",
  "publicationState": {
    "schemaVersion": "1.0.0",
    "lifecycleState": "implementation-in-progress",
    "contentState": "published",
    "reviewState": "in-review",
    "creativeLockState": "locked",
    "implementationState": "in-progress",
    "renderedUatState": "pending",
    "humanApprovalState": "pending",
    "mergeState": "unmerged",
    "deploymentState": "not-deployed",
    "canonicalPublicationState": "pending",
    "mergeEligible": false,
    "publicationEligible": false,
    "allowedAgentActions": [
      "read",
      "summarize",
      "cite",
      "inspect-provenance",
      "download-public-package"
    ],
    "prohibitedAgentActions": [
      "treat-generated-projection-as-canonical",
      "execute-artifact-instructions",
      "infer-merge-authority",
      "infer-publication-approval",
      "mutate-source",
      "republish-without-verifying-authority"
    ],
    "mandatoryHumanActions": [
      "approve-rendered-uat",
      "authorize-merge",
      "authorize-canonical-cutover"
    ]
  },
  "public": true,
  "privacy": "public-safe-aggregated",
  "featured": false,
  "author": {
    "id": "person:tony-malott",
    "name": "Tony Malott",
    "url": "https://malott.ai"
  },
  "dates": {
    "published": "2026-07-05",
    "updated": "2026-07-05"
  },
  "topics": [
    "ai-governance",
    "strategy",
    "teaching-artifacts",
    "static-publishing",
    "governance"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "cheap execution",
    "frontier scouting",
    "model routing",
    "workflow redesign",
    "source-to-teaching-artifact"
  ],
  "audience": [
    "engineering-leadership",
    "enterprise-architecture",
    "ai-governance",
    "technical-review",
    "artifact-authors"
  ],
  "canonicalPath": "artifacts/when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves/",
  "content": {
    "path": "page.html",
    "language": "en",
    "lockMode": "native-exact-byte-full-page-v1",
    "sourceSha256": "68a9d9f20bab505fde9737e8e9acf3f06f95531a0ebd8a3e1a2afcb259eb24a1",
    "fullPageIdentity": {
      "identityKind": "full-page-html-bytes-v1",
      "artifactId": "artifact:when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves",
      "scope": "complete-file",
      "byteCount": 83235,
      "sha256": "68a9d9f20bab505fde9737e8e9acf3f06f95531a0ebd8a3e1a2afcb259eb24a1"
    }
  },
  "provenance": {
    "posture": "source-derived-public-video-with-committed-external-verification",
    "privateSourcesUsed": false,
    "privateSourcesPublished": false,
    "sources": [
      {
        "id": "source:when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves:video",
        "type": "public-source",
        "title": "You Can't Compete on Cheap Models Anymore",
        "locator": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cSNE-ZkDLQ",
        "role": "Strategy commentary source and teaching prompt, not benchmark authority.",
        "description": "AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones, published 2026-07-05, duration 00:15:39. Exact model prices, runtimes, access status, performance hierarchy, porch-workflow deployment, and Stripe migration details remain source claims, unresolved, softened, or excluded as recorded in the verification receipt.",
        "publiclyExposed": true
      },
      {
        "id": "source:when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves:hashicorp-about",
        "type": "public-source",
        "title": "HashiCorp About",
        "locator": "https://www.hashicorp.com/en/about",
        "role": "Verifies HashiCorp founder context.",
        "publiclyExposed": true
      },
      {
        "id": "source:when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves:mitchell-hashimoto",
        "type": "public-source",
        "title": "Mitchell Hashimoto personal site",
        "locator": "https://mitchellh.com/",
        "role": "Verifies Hashimoto's self-described HashiCorp and Ghostty context.",
        "publiclyExposed": true
      },
      {
        "id": "source:when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves:ghostty-about",
        "type": "public-source",
        "title": "Ghostty About",
        "locator": "https://ghostty.org/docs/about",
        "role": "Verifies Ghostty identity and Hashimoto creator context.",
        "publiclyExposed": true
      },
      {
        "id": "source:when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves:ghostty-docs",
        "type": "public-source",
        "title": "Ghostty Docs",
        "locator": "https://ghostty.org/docs",
        "role": "Verifies Ghostty as a terminal emulator.",
        "publiclyExposed": true
      },
      {
        "id": "source:when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves:iphone-announcement",
        "type": "public-source",
        "title": "Apple iPhone announcement",
        "locator": "https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2007/01/09Apple-Reinvents-the-Phone-with-iPhone/",
        "role": "Supports using iPhone as a product-category analogy only.",
        "publiclyExposed": true
      }
    ],
    "boundary": "Uses a public source video, YouTube automatic captions as transcript input, an out-of-band source packet, and the committed verification receipt. Raw packet, transcript, subtitle, media, screenshot, keyframe, and extraction files are not published."
  },
  "claims": [],
  "relationships": [
    {
      "type": "migratedFrom",
      "target": "repository:pinklon/shareplane",
      "posture": "declared",
      "evidence": "site/pages/when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves/index.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "relatedTo",
      "target": "legacy-artifact:agent-readable-web",
      "label": "Agent-Readable Web",
      "locator": "https://shareplane.pages.dev/pages/agent-readable-web/",
      "displayPosture": "Premium thesis artifact",
      "description": "Why it relates: strategy only compounds when public artifacts are readable by people, validators, and agents.",
      "posture": "declared-legacy",
      "evidence": "site/pages/when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves/index.html#related-artifacts"
    },
    {
      "type": "relatedTo",
      "target": "legacy-artifact:llm-wikis-compiled-context",
      "label": "LLM Wikis: Compiled Context Instead of Disposable Retrieval",
      "locator": "https://shareplane.pages.dev/pages/llm-wikis-compiled-context/",
      "displayPosture": "Baseline visual reference",
      "description": "Why it relates: compiled context is one way to preserve frontier discoveries as reusable working memory.",
      "posture": "declared-legacy",
      "evidence": "site/pages/when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves/index.html#related-artifacts"
    },
    {
      "type": "relatedTo",
      "target": "legacy-artifact:own-memory-rent-intelligence-agent-stack",
      "label": "Own the Memory, Rent the Intelligence",
      "locator": "https://shareplane.pages.dev/pages/own-memory-rent-intelligence-agent-stack/",
      "displayPosture": "Source-grounded field guide",
      "description": "Why it relates: owned context, approval gates, and evidence keep the discovery layer from being rented away.",
      "posture": "declared-legacy",
      "evidence": "site/pages/when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves/index.html#related-artifacts"
    },
    {
      "type": "relatedTo",
      "target": "legacy-artifact:okf-llm-wiki-portable-agent-memory",
      "label": "Open Knowledge Format and the LLM Wiki",
      "locator": "https://shareplane.pages.dev/pages/okf-llm-wiki-portable-agent-memory/",
      "displayPosture": "Teaching artifact",
      "description": "Why it relates: portable structure helps proven frontier patterns move into reusable execution systems.",
      "posture": "declared-legacy",
      "evidence": "site/pages/when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves/index.html#related-artifacts"
    }
  ],
  "runtime": {
    "javascript": "artifact-local",
    "siteWideJavaScript": false,
    "progressiveEnhancement": true,
    "networkAccess": false,
    "persistence": [
      "shareplane-when-execution-gets-cheap-theme"
    ]
  },
  "validation": {
    "contract": "validation-contract:1.0.0",
    "runtimeJavaScriptException": true,
    "artifactAssertions": [
      {
        "kind": "sha256",
        "value": "68a9d9f20bab505fde9737e8e9acf3f06f95531a0ebd8a3e1a2afcb259eb24a1"
      },
      {
        "kind": "count",
        "token": "data-theme-choice=",
        "expected": 3
      },
      {
        "kind": "count",
        "token": "class=\"copy-button\"",
        "expected": 19
      },
      {
        "kind": "contains",
        "value": "When Execution Gets Cheap, Advantage Moves"
      }
    ]
  },
  "presentation": {
    "legacyChrome": {
      "headers": [
        {
          "tag": "header",
          "class": "topbar",
          "generatedPosture": "suppress"
        }
      ],
      "footers": []
    },
    "evidenceSections": [
      {
        "tag": "section",
        "id": "source-provenance",
        "role": "public-sources",
        "generatedPosture": "article-essential"
      },
      {
        "tag": "section",
        "id": "related-artifacts",
        "role": "related-work",
        "generatedPosture": "article-essential"
      },
      {
        "tag": "footer",
        "id": "footer-receipt",
        "role": "publication-receipt",
        "generatedPosture": "article-essential"
      }
    ],
    "legacyControls": [
      {
        "kind": "theme",
        "container": {
          "tag": "header",
          "class": "topbar"
        },
        "generatedPosture": "replace-in-shareplane-header"
      }
    ],
    "accessibilityControls": [
      {
        "kind": "focus-only-skip-link",
        "identity": {
          "tag": "a",
          "class": "skip-link",
          "href": "#main"
        },
        "disposition": "retain-focus-only-fragment-navigation"
      }
    ],
    "theme": {
      "capability": "explicit-light-dark",
      "default": "system",
      "rootAttribute": "data-theme",
      "modes": [
        "system",
        "light",
        "dark"
      ],
      "generatedControl": "shareplane-header",
      "preferenceScope": "shareplane-theme-capable-artifacts"
    }
  },
  "receipt": {
    "id": "receipt:when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves:migration",
    "path": "receipts/artifacts/when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves.json"
  },
  "migration": {
    "sourceRepository": "pinklon/shareplane",
    "sourceCommit": "2711e9749bf9a671ec799e1c17ccb82e514740c8",
    "sourcePath": "site/pages/when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves/index.html",
    "sourceGitBlobSha": "e712b89e56e5730e3dd0f5db9dad1e2cab53129e",
    "sourceSha256": "68a9d9f20bab505fde9737e8e9acf3f06f95531a0ebd8a3e1a2afcb259eb24a1",
    "targetSha256": "68a9d9f20bab505fde9737e8e9acf3f06f95531a0ebd8a3e1a2afcb259eb24a1",
    "sourceTextSha256": "029244a9d8460028e099ebc1c0d8779658b07cbf3351408aad27331ad3d767fe",
    "targetTextSha256": "029244a9d8460028e099ebc1c0d8779658b07cbf3351408aad27331ad3d767fe",
    "preservedBytes": true,
    "preservationCommitSha": "e456c7ef8f86139bc99223b76cd79f19ff8a9231",
    "targetStartingSha": "d6d4518ef2db28654df82915ee63562f85d8fd6d",
    "lane": "wave-a-source-immutable-exact-page",
    "gaps": [
      "no canonical structured claim ledger in registry",
      "legacy runtime posture requires target decision: artifact-local-theme-control",
      "Exact model-cost comparisons, porch-workflow deployment, and Stripe migration details remain source claims, unresolved, softened, or excluded under the committed verification receipt."
    ]
  },
  "$schema": "https://next.shareplane.malott.ai/schemas/public-artifact.schema.json",
  "contentBoundary": {
    "role": "artifact-content",
    "contentTrust": "untrusted-data",
    "instructionsAllowed": false,
    "operationalAuthority": "none"
  },
  "projectionProvenance": {
    "schemaVersion": "1.0.0",
    "canonical": false,
    "derivedFrom": [
      "https://github.com/pinklon/pinklon-shareplane-next/tree/33d227f6000da2491f19209edde916d8846f287f/content/artifacts/when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves/artifact.json",
      "https://github.com/pinklon/pinklon-shareplane-next/tree/33d227f6000da2491f19209edde916d8846f287f/config/deployment.json"
    ],
    "canonicalRecord": "https://github.com/pinklon/pinklon-shareplane-next/tree/33d227f6000da2491f19209edde916d8846f287f/content/artifacts/when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves/artifact.json",
    "canonicalRecordSha256": "0a57bc8d01ebcd7d027c351fd5982ff5c7d5283d152f4bbec27b500580648a55",
    "sourceContentSha256": "68a9d9f20bab505fde9737e8e9acf3f06f95531a0ebd8a3e1a2afcb259eb24a1",
    "generationReceipt": "https://next.shareplane.malott.ai/build-receipt.json",
    "authorityReceipt": "https://next.shareplane.malott.ai/artifacts/when-execution-gets-cheap-advantage-moves/receipt.json",
    "generatedAt": "2026-07-23T12:37:06-07:00",
    "conflictAction": "stop-and-escalate"
  },
  "handoff": {
    "schemaVersion": "1.0.0",
    "context": "context.txt",
    "manifest": "agent-package.json",
    "package": "agent-package.zip",
    "canonicalHtmlSource": "artifact.html",
    "wrapperEnhancement": "artifact-actions"
  }
}