AI Cost & FinOps
Writing on AI cost and FinOps: metering the AI bill like the cloud bill, model selection as capacity planning, and governing spend without spend gates.
AI spend through a FinOps lens: the AI bill as the new cloud bill, picking models the way you size a cluster, and budget governance that doesn't gate every forty-dollar question. A small but growing set of essays as the cost conversation matures.
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Prove You Need the Agent Before the Swarm
Token spend explained ~80% of variance in multi-agent runs; most "AI failures" are provisioning mistakes. Treat a swarm as segregation of duties.
Stop Gating the $40 Question
Two hours and $40 did what a top engineer says he couldn't — and no routing table would have assigned it. Gating frontier access defunds your own sensing.
Your AI Bill Is the New Cloud Bill
We spent a decade learning cloud FinOps and are repeating every mistake with LLM spend — here's the operating model that meters, routes, and caps it.
Model Selection Is Capacity Planning
Most teams pick a model like a sports team and never revisit it — but model selection is a routing, capacity, and risk decision you already know how to make.