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Choose the smallest model that can handle the work
You do not need to take a sports car to get bread from the bakery. Yet that is exactly what most people do with AI. They turn on the most powerful model their subscription allows, and use it for everything. A four-line poem, rewriting an email, cleaning up a folder full of files. All on the most expensive engine.
More power is not always better
It feels logical: the smartest model gives the best result. For complex thinking, that is true. But for many daily tasks, it works counterproductively. The largest models have a tendency to do too much. They write longer than necessary, add things you did not ask for, and sometimes run ahead of you in a direction you did not want.
I experimented with this myself this summer. With practical building work, I often got better results with a less powerful model that I could steer tightly, than with the largest model that went in all directions with it. Control wins over power when you are at the wheel.
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