On Friday afternoon a government order hit Anthropic, and by Saturday morning Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were disabled for every customer worldwide. Not deprecated. Gone. Two days later OpenAI shut Sora down because it was losing fifteen million dollars a day.

I don't have a strong take on the politics. What I had was a smaller, more selfish question at 8am Saturday: if I'd staffed a real workflow on either of those, what would I actually do right now?

So I tested it. Here's what happened.

"We'd just switch" is a hope, not a plan

I'd been telling myself I had redundancy for months. If my main model fell over, I'd move to a second vendor. Easy.