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TIL the best automations reduce context window by using cheap models for boring steps and saving Claude Opus for the hard part

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I learned this the annoying way: I inspected a support-ticket automation that was doing cleanup, classification, extraction, summarization, and escalation decisions with the same expensive model. It worked. That was the problem. When a workflow works, nobody asks whether it’s wasting money and cont…

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  1. 2026-10-03 06:10 · DEV Community — AI
    TIL the best automations reduce context window by using cheap models for boring steps and saving Claude Opus for the hard part

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