We replaced an LLM call for intent classification with a fine-tuned s…

Priya Banerjee

Data Scientist | NLP, forecasting, Python | Ex-researcher | Women in Tech mentor

6 Oct 2026 GenAI Builders

We replaced an LLM call for intent classification with a fine-tuned small model. Latency 1.2s → 40ms, cost basically zero, accuracy the same. Not everything needs a frontier model.

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Ishaan Reddy6 Oct 2026
This! LLMs for the long tail, small models for the high-volume known cases.
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Myra Chawla7 Oct 2026
The latency win alone changes the product experience.

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We replaced an LLM call for intent classification with a fine-tuned small model. Latency 1.2s → 40ms, cost…

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We replaced an LLM call for intent classification with a fine-tuned small model. Latency 1.2s → 40ms, cost…

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