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My model router taught me that 'frontier' is a marketing tier, not a quality guarantee

I spent weeks assuming that picking the biggest model was the safe move. Then I actually measured it. I run a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint that routes across 50+ models with auto/eco/premium tiers, and the first thing the logs showed me was that agents don't need the biggest model — they need…

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  1. 2026-11-01 03:04 · DEV Community — AI
    My model router taught me that 'frontier' is a marketing tier, not a quality guarantee

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