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· Jan 21, 2026Cost ceilings for LLM features are an engineering problem, not a finance one
Most teams treat the monthly LLM bill as something for finance to escalate. It is an engineering problem with engineering levers, and the time to design for it is day one — not month three.
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· Nov 4, 2025The observability minimum that earns its keep
Enterprise vendors oversell observability and small teams underbuild it. There's a two-week setup that pays back forever, and a lot of stuff past that which only earns its keep at scale.
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