Technical blog
Practical notes on AI infrastructure pricing, model routing, workload planning, and avoiding inflated model bills.
Optimization
Do not buy frontier tokens for routine inference
A practical routing pattern for keeping Codex, Claude, and other frontier models on high-value work while cheaper open-model lanes handle routine volume.
Frontier only for judgmentOpen
Pricing strategy
AI pricing is moving from flat rates to hybrid bills
Why subscriptions, usage buckets, overages, cache misses, output tokens, storage, and egress make the real bill larger than the sticker price.
Sticker price is not the billOpen