Tags

economics

7 entries filed under “economics”.

  1. 2026

  2. The Bill Is Part of the Loop

    Every model response already carries its own bill in the usage field, and the loop throws it away. This post reads that field, prices it against a table, and turns cost into a value the loop can see per turn and act on: a metering decorator that needs no loop change, a running ledger, prompt-cache accounting that moves the number the most, and a budget that degrades before it stops. Part eight of The Agent Platform Handbook.

    agentseconomicsmetricstypescript

    10 min

  3. The Model Is a Dependency

    Every layer of the harness has existed to put the right tokens in front of one hardcoded model string. This post pulls that string out and makes the model a dependency: why you route a cheap model for easy turns and a strong one for hard turns, what a fallback looks like when a provider is down, and why 'models are commodities' is a claim about your architecture before it is a claim about the market. Part seven of The Agent Platform Handbook.

    agentsreliabilityeconomicstypescript

    14 min

  4. The Bottleneck Is Data, and Europe Is Sitting on It

    Frontier AI is running short on public text, not compute. Europe's edge is the high-quality data it never put online. Capturing it needs coordination.

    sovereigntypolicyeconomicsoss

    34 min

  5. Context Is the Product

    Models are commodities. Context is not. The sources of context an agent draws on, why retrieval alone is not enough, and a minimal .AGENTS/ convention that loads context from disk into the same harness we have been building. Part four of The Agent Platform Handbook.

    agentseconomicstypescript

    26 min

  6. The Economics of Inference

    Inference tokens are not API calls. They are a metered resource that is consumed, generates value, and correlates with power draw. The economics of the post-AI world look less like software and more like water, electricity, and gas.

    ai-for-opseconomicsedge-systemssovereigntyplatform-automation

    12 min

  7. What Sixteen AI Agents Taught Me About Management

    What happens when you give sixteen AI agents an org chart, a reporting structure, and a token budget. A story about orchestration, management, and running out of runway.

    ai-engineeringagentsplatform-automationeconomics

    19 min

  8. How AI Makes Bare Metal Viable Again

    I migrated two production apps from Kubernetes to a single Hetzner box. The missing piece was not the hardware.

    platform-automationai-engineeringeconomicsreliabilityrustelixir

    29 min