AI Cost Management

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Your AI Stack Has a Missing Layer (Here’s What It Costs You)

Imagine you’re running a shipping company. You’ve got the trucks. You’ve got the warehouses. You’ve got a fleet management system that tracks fuel consumption down to the liter. But every time a customer wants to ship a package, they have to walk into the warehouse, find a truck driver, negotiate which vehicle to use, and […]

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Model Arbitrage: Why You Shouldn’t Use GPT-5 for Everything

Imagine hiring a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician to sit in a restaurant and calculate a 15% tip on a $40 lunch bill. They would get the answer right, certainly. But you would be paying hundreds of dollars an hour for a task that a $5 pocket calculator could do instantly for free. This sounds absurd, yet

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The $10,000 Weekend: Why Recursive Agents Need Leashes

It was 8:45 AM on a Monday. David, a Lead Infrastructure Engineer at a mid-sized fintech company, settled in with his coffee and opened his cloud billing dashboard—a routine habit he’d formed years ago. Usually, the graph was a flat, predictable line. Maybe a small bump during end-of-month processing. Today, the line wasn’t flat. It

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