> For the coordinator or judge above them I would put myself

You will not be able to keep up with the sheer volume, or alternatively you're never gonna ingest as much information as the LLM, so you're gonna miss out. Input tokens are relatively cheap.

Think of yourself as the CTO, they can't possibly make a judgement call on every detail, but an LLM can, and if you're gonna let an LLM do that, might as well go with frontier, and if you're not gonna let an LLM do that, you're stuck with whatever the lower-tier LLMs provided you with.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't read or judge the code at all, but you're still gonna want to use the LLM as the lever.