The router pattern is underrated, how we cut token costs by 60% with intelligent agent selection

I once watched a research pipeline burn through $340 in a single afternoon. Not because it failed but because it succeeded. Twenty-three steps, every one of them routed to a frontier model, and nineteen of those steps were formatting JSON, extracting dates, and classifying support tickets.

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/alex_aslam/the-router-pattern-is-underrated-how-we-cut-token-costs-by-60-with-intelligent-agent-selection-1kg1)