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Candidate Generation Decides Your Pipeline's Cost, Not the LLM
When the Most Capable Model Is the Wrong Starting Point The fastest way to exceed a document pipeline budget is to let an LLM inspect every document before you have performed lightweight filtering. This sounds obvious, but the bottleneck is invisible at the prototype stage. A single model call is cheap, and it works well on the 20 documents in your test set. Then you hit production traffic. The failure mode is usually pretty similar across teams: tens of thousands of LLM calls per day, tens of m
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