Escalating to the better model made 34 answers worse
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The standard picture of a cheap AI system is a ladder. Small model at the bottom, big one at the top, switch up when the work looks hard. Almost every cost-saving story is a version of that, and the whole design question collapses into "when do I escalate". We built that. Then we published that our…
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- 2026-09-25 19:51 · DEV Community — AI
Escalating to the better model made 34 answers worse