Your Company Is Overpaying for AI by 80% — I Built a Live Simulator That Proves It
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[ EXECUTIVE TEARDOWN // TL;DR ] Most production LLM traffic is repetitive or simple; sending it all to a frontier model is an architecture failure invoiced monthly. The fix is a three-tier cascade: semantic cache (near-free), flash-class models (10x cheaper), frontier only for genuine reasoning. In…
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- 2026-09-15 09:33 · DEV Community — AI
Your Company Is Overpaying for AI by 80% — I Built a Live Simulator That Proves It