Route, don't guess
Field notes from the machine: how we built the orchestrator that routes each task to the optimal model, and the near miss that drew the line on what it's allowed to act on. Every Claude Code session defaults to the model it was opened with. Ask it to rename a variable or design a whole subsystem and, left alone, it reaches for the same tier both times. That's fine until the quota notices. Tokens…
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