If you’ve glanced at my About Me, you probably know, I have a soft spot for vintage automobiles. Old machines carry stories. And I’ve always had respect for the people who take their time to restore...

Our description of first three cost ripples: compute infrastructure, data pipelines, and vector/retrieval systems, quietly built the foundation for modern AI hidden cost ripples. Each layer solved a...

Thoughts, observations, and reflections across evolving information technology landscapes. The ideas shared on this website come from personal experience, research, and observation across rapidly...

Dusted off my DSLR camera last weekend  Not everything that grows needs to be optimized. Spring runs on its own timeline, quiet, steady, and without urgency. Flowers don’t scale faster because we want...

In our previous two episodes, we explored some of less obvious but critical ripple effects of scaling AI systems. In Episode #1, we unpacked Hidden AI Cost Ripple #1: Compute Infrastructure Cost...

While compute infrastructure forms a foundation of AI’s cost structure, it is only the first ripple. As organizations move from experimentation to production, a second, often larger wave emerges of...