Sort your AI tasks by effort so you stop overpaying
› I use AI for work and I want to stop sending every task to the most expensive model. Here are the tasks I ran through AI this past week, one per line: [list 10 to 20 tasks, with a few words on each].
Before you start, ask me one question if any task is too vague to sort.
Then, for each task:
1. Put it in one effort level: Standard (everyday work, a fast model is fine), High (needs careful reasoning), or Max (hard, many steps, mistakes are costly).
2. Pick a workflow: Single (one model answers), Cascade (a cheaper model drafts, I check it and move up a level only if it fails), or Critique (one model drafts, a second model reviews it, the first revises).
3. Write one sentence on what a bad answer would look like for that task, so I know when to escalate.
Finish with a table of every task with its level, workflow and warning sign. Under the table, name the three tasks I am most likely overpaying for today and the one task where I am probably not spending enough.
Works in any AI chat. In Magai, run it against several models at once.