Latest — 21 May 2026 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,