LangChain's Open SWE routes tasks to cheapest passing model, cutting median cost 64%
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Harrison Chase says LangChain's Open SWE now moves model choice into the harness, sending each task to the cheapest model that passes quality tests.
He reports median cost per task dropped 64%.
In a quoted reply, Chase says DeepSeek v4.1 Flash handles orchestration, implementation, and verification well, with frontier models kept for harder edge cases.
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Harrison Chase@hwchase17XLangChain's Open SWE routes each task to the cheapest adequate modelAILangChain says Open SWE now moves model choice into the harness, sending each task to the cheapest model that passes quality tests. Median cost per task dropped 64%. The post's quoted reply says DeepSeek v4.1 Flash handles orchestration, implementation, and verification well, with frontier models kept for harder edge cases.
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