We Built a Routing Layer to Cut Our AI Costs. It Broke the Product.

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A team cut their AI inference bill by more than half. Three months later, customer satisfaction was dropping and the cost savings were tied to the quality loss. Cost-optimization routing layers are a Pareto trap, and here's the detection methodology that catches them in days instead of months. The post We Built a Routing Layer to Cut Our AI Costs. It Broke the Product. appear