Two gears meshing — one large and one small — symbolizing routing work between a heavy frontier model and a lightweight worker model.

The Token Tax: Why Most AI Coding Costs Are Wasted on Work a $0.10 Model Could Do

Most tokens burned by an AI coding agent are spent on I/O and boilerplate, not reasoning. Here’s how to slash your bill by routing grunt work to a cheaper model while keeping your frontier model for the problems that actually need it.

September 6, 2026 · 13 min · 2582 words · martinuke0
Stylized dashboard showing GPU utilization bars alongside cost and revenue metrics.

GPU Utilization Is Becoming a Business Metric

GPUs are no longer a hidden infrastructure cost. They are a tracked business metric, tied to revenue, margins, and team accountability. This post unpacks why utilization moved from engineering dashboards to board decks, and what it means for the way you build, schedule, and bill ML workloads.

September 5, 2026 · 9 min · 1800 words · martinuke0
Diagram of Karpenter consolidation evaluating nodes for replacement on a Kubernetes cluster.

Implementing Karpenter's Consolidation Disruption Policies for Spot Instance Workloads

How to design consolidation disruption policies in Karpenter that aggressively reclaim underutilized nodes without thrashing your Spot workloads, with real EKS configuration examples.

September 4, 2026 · 9 min · 1912 words · martinuke0
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