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Zep Agent Skills let Haiku match Opus 5.5 at 7x the speed

AISantiago shows how Zep Agent Skills teach Claude Haiku to complete a task Opus 5.5 handles, without fine-tuning the model. Haiku finishes in 59 seconds versus 7 minutes for Opus 5.5, using 700K tokens instead of 1.4M.
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How to replace a large, expensive, and slow model with a small, cheaper, fast model and still get the same results.

7x faster and 50% fewer tokens.

This is like fine-tuning, but without touching the model.

Here, we teach Haiku, using Zep Agent Skills, to do what Opus 5.5 does to complete a task.

  • It takes 7 minutes with Opus 5.5. Only 59 seconds with Haiku.
  • It takes 1.4M tokens with Opus 5.5. Only 700K with Haiku.
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Original title: How to replace a large, expensive, and slow model with a small, cheaper, fast model and still get the same results.

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