A Judge LLM Escalating to Opus Matches Accuracy at 4x Lower Cost
theanomaly · hn · 2026-11-07
- Hightouch's engineering writeup: a small LLM judge handles identity-resolution calls first and asks Claude Opus only when uncertain.
- This tiered routing keeps Opus-level accuracy while cutting cost to roughly 1/4 of calling Opus directly.
- Covers practical LLM-as-judge design choices for per-record matching tasks — a directly reusable pattern for teams optimizing expensive model calls.
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