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Regex Outperforms LLM for Agent Context Routing by 45 Points
A test of intention-aware context gates for LLM agents found that a 40-line regex classifier beat LLM-based routers by 45 percentage points in accuracy. The regex achieved 92% accuracy on 140 hand-authored requests across seven dispatch classes, while LLM routers scored only 47%. This suggests simpler methods can dramatically reduce token waste in agent architectures.
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The finding challenges the reflex to throw LLMs at every routing problem, but the test's small dataset and controlled conditions mean real-world gains may vary.
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