Only Day 3 of the Month and Already Burning Tokens Building a Hybrid Local-Cloud LLM Orchestrator
unixterminal · x · 2026-10-04
A developer jokes about spending the first days of the month building a hybrid local SLM + cloud LLM orchestrator meant to cut token burn. It's a relatable take on the growing cost-anxiety workaround: route simple tasks to a local small model and reserve cloud LLM calls for complex requests.
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