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The Silent Quality Collapse: Why Your LLM Router Is Secretly Destroying User Trust
Community description: LLM routers save costs but silently degrade quality. Learn the 6-week churn pattern, 3 invisible failure modes, and how to build an eval layer that ca
Dev.to | Oct 5, 2026 | Mohit Verma
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Even a perfectly calibrated router will cause silent quality collapse if you lack the eval layer to detect drift between model tiers on production traffic. A production LLM router sits between your application layer and your model providers. Cascade (the most common production pattern): Try the premium model first.
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