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15 July 2026 · 18 min read
Cheap Models, Honest Reports: Getting Haiku to Behave Like Sonnet
Haiku ran my fixture suite at parity with Sonnet once the doctrine forced verification and status tokens. The trick is not a better model. It is a tighter contract about what done means. This holds across both Anthropic and OpenAI's durable tier system.
AI agents cost Maestro models Haiku GPT cross-provider
16 June 2026 · 19 min read
Frontier AI Performance at Home, Without the API Bill
Maestro fuses the model CLIs already on your machine into one answer that beats any of them alone. It is the same mixture-of-agents method OpenRouter's Fusion API benchmarked at frontier level for about half the cost, except it runs on the flat-rate subscriptions you already pay for instead of a metered API bill.
AI agents Maestro fusion cost local-first