To me your comment sounds unnecessarily rude. I guess you are reacting to private smug conversations with people who eulogize ML but are clueless about what th

To me your comment sounds unnecessarily rude. I guess you are reacting to private smug conversations with people who eulogize ML but are clueless about what they are talking about. Usually the amount of conviction they add to their comments and advice is inversely proportional to their knowledge. I am tired of those too, to the point of being allergic in spite of being an ML practitioner myself. The parent comment could have been worded better but I think you will agree that there is scope for using ML or statistical modeling of some kind to optimize the use case both in API cost and accuracy. Making some minimal number of API calls would very likely be part of such a system.