When a Judgment Layer's Self-Reported Fields Lie: Cost, Latency and the Failure Boundary of Three Judgment Layers on the Same Items
Handing the judgment work in a long-horizon task to a cheap, specialised judge is a divisionof labour usually sold on the grounds that it **saves money**. This paper measures that claimagainst a controlled three-way comparison, and reports four claims — one of which our owndata refutes. **First, cost is not the binding...