title: Smarter Resource Allocation Beats Stronger Models published: false description: Why AI code review quality depends more on search strategy than model tier — and how GC-style audit zoning + anchor-based prompting beat both. tags: ai, coding, architecture, engineering, productivity Smarter Resource Allocation Beats Stronger Models You ask Sonnet to review code it just wrote. It says looks good. You ask Opus to review the same code. Opus finds half a dozen issues. It's tempting to conclude O