AI builders are calling model routers an anti-pattern in agent systems
HanchungLee · x · 2026-07-23
The author argues that “let the model route and decide” is the better default, and calls model routers an anti-pattern.
They compare the idea to older waves of over-engineering:
- drawing LLM DAGs in 2023
- influencer-style multi-agent systems in 2024
The post is a rebuttal to the claim that routing tasks through an intermediate model is like letting an intern decide what the CEO works on.
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