Coding Teams Overpay for Frontier AI Models on Work Cheaper Models Could Handle
Teams using AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex default to expensive frontier models for all implementation work, even routine bounded tasks that lower-cost models could handle under supervision. This creates unnecessary cost without an established way to delegate work by tier while still gating final approval behind stronger judgment.
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