Opus is Better Suited as a Model Orchestrator
keunwoochoi · x · 2026-07-16
The author argues that Opus is better suited than Fable to act as an orchestrator. This is because even if biosafety checks route certain requests to Opus, the blast radius is contained—subsequent tasks can still continue calling Fable.<br><br>The core insight here is about multi-model orchestration strategy: placing a more powerful model at the routing/scheduling layer can mitigate the systemic impact of unexpected failovers, even if it results in some duplicated token costs.
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