Cheaper tokens, bigger bills
Why your AI bill goes up as prices come down, and what Uber's blown budget actually tells us.
More issues
The model is free. Running it isn't.
Here's the thing nobody tells you when they say "AI is getting cheaper": there isn't one price curve. There are two, and they're moving in opposite directions.
The implementation era is ending
Something genuinely strange happened to software engineering in late 2025, and I don't think we've fully reckoned with it yet.
I work as a site reliability engineer at a major healthcare system. My job is to keep platforms running, manage AWS costs across a multi-account environment,