I was working on cost optimization for an LLM-based document translation pipeline. At that point,...
I was working on cost optimization for an LLM-based document translation
pipeline.
At that point, the LLM translation flow was still very direct: one extracted
text segment became one API call.
It worked, but it was not ideal for cost.
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