Phase 17: Infrastructure & Production
AI From Scratch/Lesson 16/~60 minutes

Model Routing as a Cost-Reduction Primitive

A dynamic broker evaluates every request (task type, token length, embedding similarity, confidence) and sends simple queries to a cheap model, escalating complex ones to a frontier model. Also called model cascading. Production case studi...

LearnPython (stdlibtoy cascading router simulator)
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