Building a local-first decision engine that only calls the big model when it's worth it
Every AI agent I've built eventually hits the same wall: calling a big model on every request is too expensive, but a small local model is too dumb on the hard cases. Most teams pick one side and live with the consequences. I wanted a third option: run a small local model first, and escalate to a b…
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- 2026-11-11 11:54 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Building a local-first decision engine that only calls the big model when it's worth it