“The teams that win at AI in production aren’t the ones with the biggest GPU budgets. They’re the ones that treat inference cost as a first-class engineering concern.”
Here’s something every team building with AI discovers around month three: your inference costs don’t scale linearly. They explode. You ship a chatbot. Users love it. Traffic doubles. Your cloud bill triples. You assumed serverless meant “pay only for what you use,” and technically that’s true – but what you’re using turns out to be far more than you thought.