Your Latency Problem Isn't Model Size (It’s Your Routing)

We spent months chasing latency. Bigger GPUs, smaller batch sizes, every optimization trick in the book. Yet, our chatbot still crawled at 3s+ per response . While our throughput dashboards looked green, our users were staring at blank loading states. The hard truth? We were using a Ferrari to fetch groceries. 🛑 The Bottleneck: The "Monolith" Fallacy We assumed the model was the bottleneck. It wasn't. The real culprit was routing every request regardless of complexity through the same heavyweig