Operating with a single AI model is convenient until that model fails, censors a task, or charges you three times for reasoning that another does just as well. This resource documents the orchestration architecture I use in production from the Ambalá-Calambeo corridor: eleven models with fixed roles, a failover matrix, and prompting rules that prevent the AI from inventing business rules.
A well-designed stack does not collapse when a provider fails. What Fable 5 demonstrated was not a failure of Anthropic — it was an architectural failure in all stacks that depended on a single point of jurisdictional failure.