Technology Foundation Model Selection for CRE Development Workflows: A Practical Evaluation Guide
Foundation model selection has a direct impact on CRE workflow accuracy, cost and analytical depth. This guide maps GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini and o-series models to specific development tasks and provides an evaluation framework covering context window, tool use reliability, structured output fidelity and cost at scale. Teams routing by task type rather than defaulting to a single model cut inference cost 40-60% while improving accuracy on high-stakes outputs.
April 23, 2026 ·4 min read