Small Models Do the Chores, Big Models Give the Answer: Cost by Task Split, Not by Model Size
Most teams pick one model and send it everything. That is the expensive mistake. The question is not "which model should we use?" It is "which parts of this job actually need the big model?" In most real pipelines, only a small share of the work needs frontier reasoning. The rest is chores: classif…
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- 2026-11-03 11:58 · DEV Community — AI
Small Models Do the Chores, Big Models Give the Answer: Cost by Task Split, Not by Model Size