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Swap text-heavy agents for single-pass models to cut token burn
◆ 85RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack1mo ago
If your agent uses an LLM to 'think' through simple choices, you are overpaying for latency and compute. Shifting to single-pass models like Kev allows you to bypass autoregressive generation for routine routing or tool selection.
Takeaways
- Text generation is an expensive proxy for simple classification tasks.
- Single-pass models reduce latency by skipping the autoregressive generation loop.
- Use open-source decision models to replace costly API calls for internal routing.
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Your AI agent is burning tokens on choices that don’t need words
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