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Anthropic's own docs say a second model only pays off in two shapes

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Been reading their cost-optimization guide and one sentence stuck: "a second model paid off in two shapes, an advisor and an orchestrator." Everything else they measured apparently didn't make the cut. Shape one: a low-cost model runs the whole loop and consults a frontier model only when stuck. Ad…

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  1. 2026-08-27 01:31 · r/PromptEngineering
    Anthropic's own docs say a second model only pays off in two shapes

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