The Silent Quality Collapse: Why Your LLM Router Is Killing Retention 6 Weeks After Launch
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Your cost dashboard shows 60% savings. Your CEO is happy. Then week 7 hits and churn spikes 18%. Nobody connects the dots. This is the silent quality collapse pattern: LLM routing optimizes for observable metrics (cost, latency, throughput) while silently degrading unobservable ones (response nuanc…
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- 2026-10-05 05:28 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
The Silent Quality Collapse: Why Your LLM Router Is Killing Retention 6 Weeks After Launch