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How do you choose a model?

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  • I compare candidate models on representative tasks, including failure and adversarial cases.
  • I measure correctness, supported tool/schema capabilities, latency, cost per successful task, and deployment/data restrictions, then version the selected configuration and keep a rollback path.
Adapted from 13_AI.MD · “29.1 LLMs”. Code examples are study fragments. Difficulty and core labels are editorial estimates; version-specific behavior should be checked against your project.