The Buddy System uses a Rust entropy monitor to detect per-token uncertainty in local Gemma 3 4B inference, routing only uncertain tokens to Sonnet via NER-gated span extraction and semantic retrieval. Benchmarks show it achieves 71.4% accuracy at $0.21, outperforming the Anthropic Advisor pattern (62.9% at $0.44) across seven Hugging Face datasets, with a key improvement on SQuAD v2 by routing source passage chunks to the cloud model.
Buddy System: Rust entropy monitor with NER-gated uncertainty for tiered LLM inference
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