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Language is a routing problem, not a translation problem
Community description: Most teams approach a multilingual support bot as a translation problem. Wire up a translation layer,...
Dev.to | Sep 15, 2026 | TokenLat
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A real SEA customer doesn't pick a language. The first routing decision isn't "which model," it's "is this even one language," and most systems answer wrong. Routing every language to the same frontier model leaves money and latency on the table for English while still under-serving the harder languages.
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