A ceiling in a conditional is one someone deletes
A budget expressed as a value can be read, derived from and audited. Buried in a conditional it can only be obeyed or removed, and it gets removed.
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Not every step needs the expensive model
Tier selection is not a preference, it is a function of three facts about the task. Two platform constraints rule out most of the combinations you would guess.
One warm context beats five cold ones
Per-layer workers each pay full context assembly. Loading once and generating inline amortises it — and the measured saving was smaller than estimated.