New comment by yucongchen in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

yucongchen — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:40:57 +0000

The real cost isn't the inference bill, it's the senior engineer hours spent debugging subtle hallucinations that slip past naive test suites. We stopped bleeding money on trivial boilerplate by implementing model routing through FlintAPI, ensuring only complex logic actually hits the expensive frontier endpoints. Treating LLMs as a monolithic tool instead of a tiered pipeline is what quietly destroys your margins.

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New comment by yucongchen in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"