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Lean LLMs, Heavy Lifting: When Workflows Beat Bigger Models

Opening — Why this matters now Everyone wants LLMs to think harder. Enterprises, however, mostly need them to think correctly — especially when optimization models decide real money, real capacity, and real risk. As organizations scale, optimization problems grow beyond toy examples. Data spills into separate tables, constraints multiply, and naïve prompt‑to‑solver pipelines quietly collapse. ...

January 15, 2026 · 3 min · Zelina