How do you optimize without hurting quality?
Practice this question- Establish a quality/security baseline, measure the expensive stages, and experiment with routing, context reduction, batching, or caching.
- Release only when held-out outcomes, tail latency, and privacy requirements remain acceptable.
Adapted from 13_AI.MD · “29.17 Cost optimization”. Code examples are study fragments. Difficulty and core labels are editorial estimates; version-specific behavior should be checked against your project.