Observability costs more than the thing it observes
At some point your telemetry bill exceeded your compute bill and nobody noticed. Here's how to fix it without going blind.
#economics
5 pieces tagged economics,
from February 28, 2025 to April 10, 2026.
Small models ate the middle
The capability floor rose faster than the ceiling. Most production inference no longer touches a frontier model.
Haiku 4.5 and the collapsing cost of good-enough
A small model at frontier-adjacent coding performance, priced for volume. The economics of agent fleets just changed.
Rate limits are a product decision, not an infrastructure one
When a tool's economics change, the users find out through the limit. There's a better way to do that.
GPT-4.5 is the end of an era, politely
A very large non-reasoning model arrives at very large prices, and mostly demonstrates why the field moved on.