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Cost, latency & reliability

The unglamorous trio (cost, latency, and reliability) is what decides whether a build survives past month two. Bigger, stronger models cost more tokens and run slower, so the craft is matching the model to the job: a frontier model where the value is high, a fast cheap one for bulk work.

After this lesson

You will match the right model to each task to keep costs low and speed high.
You will size work to finish early in the context window for better reliability.
You will monitor execution counts to prevent expensive runs from draining the budget.

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