- In short
- Cost and latency are separate budgets that cannot always be traded against each other; a design must satisfy both simultaneously. Not making an explicit model-tier or context-strategy decision is itself a decision, and it defaults to the most expensive configuration. The load-bearing setting is whichever control, if relaxed, would breach a budget first, and modelling cost during design surfaces overruns weeks earlier than a post-launch monthly review.
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