Secrecy buys a head start that erodes on someone else's model timeline. The better question: does this asset gain or lose value as models improve?

One question sorts everything I build into open or closed: build-time artifact, or runtime service? And the condition under which I'd move the line.

Secrecy buys a head start that erodes on someone else's model timeline. The better question: does this asset gain or lose value as models improve?