Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

1010: Fable 5 as Advisor: Anthropic's Two-Model Pattern for Smarter, Cheaper Agents

📅 July 17, 2026 ⏱️ 14m

In Episode #1010, Jon Krohn digs into “the advisor strategy”, a clever pattern that pairs a fast, cheap executor model with a frontier-class advisor it can consult mid-task, all inside a single API call. Every agent builder faces the same tension: frontier models plan best but cost too much to run o