Why "best model" is the wrong question now

Cognition President Russell Kaplan explains why developer priorities have flipped: once software tasks hit the saturation point where every model can do them well, speed and cost start to matter more than raw capability. This clip is from Max Agency, a podcast about how the best AI agents are actually being built. Hosted by Harrison Chase, CEO of LangChain, each episode goes deep with the builders designing, deploying, and learning from real agent systems in the wild. From architecture decisions to evals, tooling, and failure modes, Max Agency is for people who want to understand what it real