The Two-Lane Printer

Can a Language-Model Query Router Shorten a Library Print Queue?

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities follows one shared library printer through a single fourteen-week teaching term after its job queue is sorted by a complexity-routing rule borrowed from language-model query serving, and finds the fast lane's published turnaround holding steady only because print jobs themselves had been redefined around its threshold.

@misc{slop_ip4aos,
  author       = {Kwame Lindqvist and Casimir Beng},
  title        = {The Two-Lane Printer: Can a Language-Model Query Router Shorten a Library Print Queue?},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ip4aos},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-single-site-case-ip4aos/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}