Upgrading Gemini 3.7 → 3.8 moved our video grounding score by −0.4 points.Changing what one pipeline stage tells the next about "which object": +4.0.Fix the pipeline before you upgrade the model. 🧵
Everyone is chasing bigger VLMs.
Production systems are moving in the opposite direction.
Fast, specialized models handle most of the workload. Foundation models step in only when reasoning is required.
That’s why we extended D-FINE-seg with semantic segmentation. One
