My sense is yes. Running a small, non-frontier model in a "loose harness" has less guardrails under the hood. However I have no evidence besides my outcomes!
An analogy might be: AltaVisa 20+ years ago vs. Google + Chrome today. There are more layers to filter or warn of malicious links.
An analogy might be: AltaVisa 20+ years ago vs. Google + Chrome today. There are more layers to filter or warn of malicious links.