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Most AI-powered SQL assistants route every query through the same expensive pipeline. Here's how complexity-based routing cuts inference costs 40-60% without sacrificing accuracy on the queries that actually need a frontier model.

Sep 15 · 6 min read · databaseinsights.hashnode.dev  
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