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Token Consumption Anxiety and the Open Source App I Built to Solve It

DEV Community·Regnard Raquedan·29 days ago
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Thanks to AI, I've spent more time architecting and building apps, which means I spend a lot of time looking at frontier models and agonizing over token use. I’ve also been battling a very modern affliction: token consumption anxiety . It feels modern AI-powered app architecture is asking us slaps an LLM at the front door. You want to dynamically pick the best model for a specific task? Great, the industry standard is to call an expensive, heavy model just to decide if the prompt should go to Claude, Gemini, or a smaller open-source model. We are burning latency and spending tokens at near absurd levels. I got tired of this cycle. I wanted a model picker with exactly zero models in the request path. So, I fired up Antigravity , let the AI (a trio of Gemini, Codex, and Claude) do the coding while I directed the architecture, and built a tool to solve my own headache. The result is RightModel . It's a tool that evaluates your task and recommends the ideal model—but the way it gets there is entirely different.…

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