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not every task needs a frontier model! we built a model router into our coding agent's harness and cut costs by 64% w/o reducing quality. this vid walks through how it works, and how you can build one into your own harness!

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Kaushik Holla8 days ago

We did something similar in one of our applications. Used a decision model(similar to Jev) to route each task to the right model instead of defaulting everything to a single model. Saw comparable performance while significantly reducing inference cost.

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Luis Manrique8 days ago

you don't need a PhD in the mailroom!

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Blum8 days ago

Running a frontier model on every task is a huge waste of your money

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