Thoughts on AI, engineering, and building
Practical writing on AI agents, automation, and the engineering behind them, for the people who run the business.
Economics & Pricingnews-analysis
Three trends set the terms for Q4 2026: infrastructure spend that keeps rising, pricing moving toward usage, and labs tightening control of agents.
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Economics & Pricingchecklist
Nine items for building an AI budget that survives price cuts, expiring promotions, effort settings and tokenizer changes.
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Economics & Pricingbrief
A back-of-envelope check: how many output tokens per second a rented H100 must sustain to match current API prices, using published list prices.
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Economics & Pricingexplainer
Three levers that cut LLM spend without cutting quality: route by task, cache repeated context, and batch what is not urgent. Real list prices included.
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Economics & Pricingnews-analysis
Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta reported Q1 2026 results. What they spent, what they guided, and why component pricing is now part of the story.
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Economics & Pricingchecklist
A practical framework for deciding whether to build, buy or partner on an AI capability, with the evidence and its limits.
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Economics & Pricingexplainer
Reasoning models spend extra tokens working before they answer. A plain-English look at what that buys, how it is billed, and where it is not worth it.
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Economics & Pricingbrief
Challenger's January report attributes 7,624 U.S. job cuts to AI, 7% of the total. What the figure shows, and what its authors say it does not.
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Economics & Pricingexplainer
Most organizations use AI but few can show profit impact. A simple way to define a baseline, count real cost per task and decide what to scale.
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Economics & Pricingbrief
Anthropic cut Opus pricing by two thirds in November, and Google priced Gemini 3 Flash at $0.50 input on December 17. The published numbers side by side.
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Economics & Pricingbrief
Model APIs bill by the token, and long prompts repeated many times add up. A short guide to reading the price list and one way to cut it.
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