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Streaming, latency and cost engineering

Answer this: "A customer's automated PR-review workflow runs on every commit and the monthly bill is climbing. Most reviews are small, mechanical diffs. What's the most impactful change and what tradeoff are you accepting?"

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A workflow nobody waits for and nobody can afford never gets adopted, no matter how good the output is.

Senior customer engineers adopt tools that feel fast and have a defensible bill. That makes streaming, model selection and token budgeting part of the engineering, not polish you add later.

PICK TWO, ON PURPOSE

Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.

diagram: quadrant

Map each workflow on cost vs. quality, then commit to a model tier - there is no corner that wins all three.