Guard, Embed, Cascade: A Framework for Cutting LLM Costs Without Cutting Quality
Most LLM pipelines are paying premium-model prices for work that doesn't need a premium model – sometimes for work that doesn't need a model at all. Guard, Embed, and Cascade are the three levers for fixing that. They aren't interchangeable, and they aren't equally powerful. * Guard and Embed are where the
Carl Anderson