Inference Pricing Turns into Product Strategy
Teams now optimize model routing per task class instead of running a single model for all workloads.
A daily editorial stream focused on applied AI: new model behavior, retrieval quality, latency economics, and engineering patterns that survive production workloads.
Teams now optimize model routing per task class instead of running a single model for all workloads.
Most failures happen in schema drift, retries, or stale retrieval snapshots, not in raw model quality.
Durable instruction layering, guardrails, and tool contracts beat one-shot prompt hacks in production.
A practical split of total response time across retrieval, model execution, and post-processing stages.
Without canary signals and rollout gates, quality drops hide behind normal traffic variance.
Operator override paths are mandatory for billing, account state, and user-impacting actions.