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    3. Would you swap a frontier API for a cheaper or self-hoste…

    Would you swap a frontier API for a cheaper or self-hosted model to cut costs?

    Cast your vote and compare your take with the EveryDev community.
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    A cheaper Sonnet tier, a two-agent harness, and an in-house open-weight model all attacked the same bill this week. Where do you land?

    Tap an answer to vote instantly. Results appear right here.

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    Would you route production traffic through a Chinese open model to cut costs?

    US firms now send up to 46% of their OpenRouter tokens to Chinese models, at 60-90% lower cost than leading US options.

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    Have you turned on your coding agent's sandbox settings?

    Three coding tools shipped agent sandboxes this week, all off by default.

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    After this week, will you keep a fallback model wired up?

    A government order took Anthropic's two best models offline for a week with no warning, and the teams that already had an open-weight backup shipped straight through it. Where do you land?

    9 votes

    When you pick a coding tool, how much does being locked to one model maker bother you?

    Vendors and startups put real money behind the answer this week. Niteshift raised $7M to route between models, and Apple and New API are building the swap into the plumbing. Where do you land?

    9 votes

    Would you give an agent its own identity and standing access to your stack?

    Microsoft Scout ships with its own governed login and acts on your behalf without asking each time. Convenient, and also exactly how an agent ends up holding access nobody explicitly granted. Where do you land?

    10 votes