Field notes
What goes wrong
between an application and a model.
CostLatest
Nobody knows what the AI costs.
For most companies, the first accurate number arrives as an invoice.
AI spend is not badly tracked so much as structurally invisible. It accrues under shared credentials, across teams that never see a total, and surfaces once a month as a single line nobody can break apart.
Read it8 September 2026 · 5 min
Compliance
The obligations attach when you ship.
Calling somebody else's model does not make it somebody else's problem.
Putting a model into your product moves a set of legal duties onto you — transparency, data protection, record-keeping. The decision that triggers them is usually made by an engineer choosing a base URL.
Read it26 August 2026 · 5 min