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A practical guide to building eval gates that let you swap in cheap open-weight models like DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM for agent tasks only when task-level accuracy, tool-call reliability, and cost-per-success metrics clear a defined threshold, set against the AI token economy's first deflationary…
A practical walkthrough of how the 47% quarterly decline in AI inference prices reported by EpochAI reshapes marginal cost modeling, batching, caching, and model routing decisions for subscription-based AI coding agents.