20. Cost, Latency, and Quality Tradeoffs

Draft lecture notebook.

This notebook will use causal decision analysis for model quality, token cost, latency, compute, safety, user value, and deployment choices.

Planned Coverage

• Cost, latency, quality, and safety as decision outcomes.
• Model, prompt, retrieval, and decoding tradeoffs.
• ROI and risk-adjusted deployment decisions.
• Communicating tradeoffs to product and platform teams.