What an AI coding assistant actually costs a team
The seat price is the smallest number in the calculation. Review load, onboarding drag and the code nobody understands are where the real spend shows up.
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AI
Models, tooling and the economics underneath.
What is actually shipping in artificial intelligence, what it costs to run, and where the gap sits between demo and production.
Local models are finally worth running
For two years running a model on your own machine was a hobby. Unified memory and better small models changed the arithmetic, though not for every job.
Small models are quietly eating the inference bill
The frontier model gets the headline. For most teams shipping to production, the interesting number is what happens when you stop using it for everything.
