The future of AI:
The setup demonstrates a practical hybrid model: smaller, local models handle most execution cheaply and privately, while frontier models provide high-level direction only as needed, reducing costs and latency.
I’ve had very good results running autoresearch with local qwen 3.6 26b model as long as I had a simple vibed pi “advisor” extension that allowed it to periodically ask GPT 5.5 for ideas. I think this direction has a lot of merit.