Here’s a great post on driving down costs, while maintaining high performance, with frontier intelligence as a manager and lower cost models for the workhorse tasks. This will be the template for what model routing looks like in the future. “We started this experiment expecting to measure how much Fable’s 2x premium would increase cost. We were surprised to find that Fable’s effective delegation actually decreased cost overall. It specified constraints and outcomes instead of spelling out the implementation, gave feedback instead of making fixes itself, and in most cases never touched the code at all. These are the habits of a good manager.” The industry is increasingly figuring out what it looks like to mix models together to be able to get targeted performance levels and optimal cost structures. Of course, the only way to get this is to have a deep understanding of the business problem you’re trying to solve and how to effectively route work to different models. If you’re in the applied layer - whether it’s customer support, legal, finance, or coding - this is how your harness will become a core area of differentiation.