Why We Deprecated Our LLM Router: Another Round of the Bitter Lesson
rickasaurus · x · 2026-08-01
@rickasaurus shared an article discussing the deprecation of an LLM router, commenting that it's another round of the "bitter lesson."
The article by Manifest explains why they shut down their LLM router after 4 months. Despite the hype around routing requests to cheaper models to save costs, they found that complexity is hard to predict. They concluded that sticking to a single, battle-tested model is more reliable than relying on routing logic, reinforcing the idea that brute-force scaling often outperforms clever engineering shortcuts.
Related event: Manifest Abandons LLM Router, Returns to Single Model(5 posts)→
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