We Stopped Routing Every Prompt to Flagship Models (And Cut Latency by 65%)
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The quickest way to inflate your cloud bill is hardcoding an expensive flagship model into every production endpoint: TypeScript // The "Good Enough for the MVP" trap const response = await anthropic.messages.create({ model: 'claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022', max_tokens: 1024, messages: [{ role: 'user',…
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- 2026-09-02 06:39 · DEV Community — AI
We Stopped Routing Every Prompt to Flagship Models (And Cut Latency by 65%)