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Some OpenCode team members run an expensive orchestrator model that never acts directly, instead spawning cheaper subagents for all tasks, which ends up being cheaper overall.
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Scott raises the model routing question that's been circulating in developer circles: can you meaningfully route between models for cost or capability gains? Dax is skeptical of most commercial routing products, which he sees as inference middlemen inventing a problem to solve. The fundamental challenge is that switching models mid-session is a full cache bust — expensive and disruptive. The routing decision has to happen at the beginning, often before there's enough signal to make it well. But there's a version that does work: the orchestrator pattern. [1] — Dax Raad "The model routing category is inflated by middlemen desperate for a business model. Real value comes from the orchestrator pattern: an expe…" 21:51 Some OpenCode team members run expensive, capable primary models configured to never take direct action — they only spawn cheaper subagent models to do the actual work. This nets out cheaper overall because the expensive model's intelligence is applied only to orchestration, while the grunt work goes to commodity-priced models. And newer-generation models are significantly better at this parallel orchestration than their predecessors, making it practical now in a way it wasn't a year ago.
The model routing category is inflated by middlemen desperate for a business model. Real value comes from the orchestrator pattern: an expensive, smart primary model that never acts directly, instead spawning cheaper subagents for all tasks. It ends up cheaper and more capable.
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