Factory ships model routing after costs drop 25% on task-by-task model selection
matanSF · x · 2026-07-23
The post points out that model routing was still a non-consensus idea just 50 days ago, yet Factory has now shipped it in production.
Factory Router automatically picks the best model for each task, claiming it can preserve frontier performance while cutting costs by 25%. The tweet uses that as evidence that routing is becoming a practical pattern, not just a theory.
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