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May 28, 2026 · 5 min read

It was fine in March

AI systems don't fail loudly. They get quietly worse while every dashboard stays green, and you find out from a customer. Here's what to watch instead, and which signal is worth more than all the others.

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February 14, 2026 · 5 min read

LLMOps

What we actually spend on AI, and where it leaks

The token price on the pricing page is the part of LLM cost that's easy to see and least worth obsessing over. The bill that surprises people is everything around the token — retries, evals, human review, context you stuffed in because retrieval was hard. Treat it as unit economics and the surprises stop.

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January 15, 2024 · 4 min read

Manufacturing

AI on the factory floor: the model is the cheap part

On a factory floor the model is the cheap part. The money goes on integration, sensor data and getting operators to trust the thing — the unglamorous 80 percent that decides whether a pilot ever reaches production.

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