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Claude Haiku 4.5: Why Your 'Fast and Cheap' AI Strategy Is Failing 90% of AI Teams Are Stuck in the Speed-Cost Paradox You've been told to pick: fast AI or smart AI. Never both. Every team I talk to has the same spreadsheet opencolumns for latency,...

Oct 15, 2025 · 6 min read · klementgunndu.hashnode.dev  
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