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Stop Wasting AI Tokens: Make ChatGPT Choose the Cheapest Model
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- Sep 10, 2026
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Hi, I'm Connor with Honor - message me here! The strongest AI model is not automatically the right model. If a smaller or local model can complete a bounded task correctly, spending premium reasoning capacity on it is like sending the entire detective bureau to check a parking meter. Watch the original AI with Honor Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/zBgk9Wupz28 Read the complete model-routing playbook: https://santaclaritaartificialintelligence.com/blog/stop-wasting-ai-tokens-use-the-cheape...