Greze: User-facing persona limits AI model routing unlike backend reasoning
Jean-Denis Greze · Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble · Sep 7, 2026 · at 22:02
Jean-Denis Greze, founder and CEO of Town, explains Town's architecture and the trade-offs of dynamically routing tasks across frontier AI models.
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“The way I think about our stack is there is the part of the stack that deals with the user interface, like the feel and the personality. And there it is harder for me to just route Wildly, because I need consistency of the experience that is sometimes hard to get from other model families. Below that, when it's just pure reasoning and intelligence, and especially when I don't have to show as many of the traces to the users, then there, yeah, I think it's very much a matter of finding, using the best model for the task.”
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