Engineering Best Practice: Start with the Strongest Model
danshipper · x · 2026-07-07
danshipper shared an insight from quintendf: the seemingly brute-force heuristic of "using the most powerful model right from the start" yields the highest success rate. Cost optimization should be reserved for the scaling phase; during early development, there's no need to sacrifice model capabilities just to save tokens.
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