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The Token Efficiency Stack
Pradnesh's thesis: Sonnet with the right harness components beats Opus without them. The era of unlimited subsidized tokens from frontier labs is ending — routing is the emerging best practice.
How it works
- 1Route reasoning-heavy tasks like data modeling to frontier models.
- 2Route simple tasks like writing column descriptions to cheaper models.
- 3Bring your own LLM, including open source, to control costs and meet governance requirements.
- 4Avoid brute-forcing one model into every specialized task.
Hear it on the podcast
Data agents you can trust in production. | Pradnesh Patil from Altimate AIListen to the episodeMore from this episode
The Four Components of an Agent HarnessThe components that turn general-purpose AI into a trustworthy production resource. Altimate Core with harness components scores 75% on the Agent Data Engineering Benchmark; Claude Code without them scores around 45%. The harness is the difference.The Tribal Knowledge Capture LoopHow the system captures and reuses how senior engineers solve problems.The Four High-Value Data Use CasesThe highest-value applications for data agents in production.
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