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Confidence-Routed Agents: Cheap First, Frontier on Escalation

Originally published at webofmike.com on 2026-11-02. The demo repo and every command in it were run before publishing. Escalating every uncertain agent decision to a frontier model sounds like the safe default. On a 240-case benchmark it was also the worse one: routing by confidence and escalating…

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  1. 2026-11-02 16:32 · DEV Community — AI
    Confidence-Routed Agents: Cheap First, Frontier on Escalation

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