Guess How Much? Why Smart Devs Brag About Cheap AI Models
TL;DR for operators Cheap models are not a moral victory. They are useful when the surrounding system knows what to ask, how to check the answer, and when to escalate. The practical lesson from FrugalGPT and later model-routing research is that AI cost optimisation is less about picking one “best value” model and more about designing an inference pipeline that spends intelligence only where intelligence is needed.1 ...