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Smart enough, fast enough: Choosing the right models for agentic work

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A few weeks ago I was watching a coding agent run through a multistep task, and what stood out was not whether it got the answer right. I found, 9 times out of 10, it did. What stood out to me was the waiting. Every step meant another call to the model, another few thousand tokens of reasoning, ano…

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  1. 2026-09-17 00:00 · Red Hat AI Blog
    Smart enough, fast enough: Choosing the right models for agentic work

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