Cut LLM costs: route requests, disable thinking, cache answers, escalate only on low confidence
colinmcnamara · x · 2026-10-24
From the author's @AustinLangChain talk: route each request, turn thinking off when it isn't needed, reuse cached answers, and step up to a bigger model only when the small one misses the confidence bar — "a cognition layer in the middle of your cognition" to cut inference cost.
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