Big model plans, small model types
Spend the expensive model on decisions and the cheap one on keystrokes.
Oct 16, 2026 · 1 min read
The expensive model is great at deciding what to build. It’s wasted on renaming forty files.
So I split the work: the big model breaks the task down, writes a brief for each piece, and reviews the result. Smaller models do the typing. The brief is the part that matters. It names the files, what done looks like, and when to stop.