AI Economics
AI Investor Marc Andreessen Inflation Fed: The Real Cost of AI Infrastructure
I spent last week in Palo Alto. Three founders told me the same thing: "We can't raise at the valuation we want because the Fed killed the market." They're w...
Apple Sues OpenAI Trade Secrets Ex-Employees: What AI Engineers Need to Know
I’ve built data systems that push 200K events per second. I’ve seen what happens when a senior engineer walks out the door—sometimes the knowledge walk...
Cost Effective vs Cost Efficient: Which Is Better?
Last week, a CTO from a Series B fintech sat in my office. He was proud of their AI agent deployment. "We cut inference costs by 60%%," he said. "Super effici...
Which is Better, Cost-Effective or Cost Efficient? A Practitioner's Guide
Last year I sat in a room with a CTO who swore we needed to cut inference costs by 30%%. He wanted to switch from GPT-4 to a fine-tuned Llama 3.2 8B. Performa...
How Do You Calculate Cost Efficiency? (A Practitioner’s Guide)
The short answer: you’re probably doing it wrong. I’ve been building data infrastructure and production AI systems at SIVARO since 2018. In that time, I�...
How Do You Calculate Cost Efficiency?
I spent three weeks in early 2024 obsessing over a single metric. We'd built an AI-powered recommendation system for a mid-size e-commerce client. Model accu...