Why it matters
I pointed my lab at one problem, inference, after 200 users burned $1,000 in credits and the math just wouldn't close. So I built the thing, felt the cost, and went looking for why renting intelligence never pencils out. Turns out everyone in this market sells a gospel shaped like their own invoice. Jensen: build a tok
My takeaway: Stop Renting Your Cognitive Infrastructure - Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan, Kalmantic Labs is an AI-engineering signal. The practical read is to connect the implementation pattern to reliability, data boundaries, observability, and the controls needed when AI leaves prototypes.