Beyond Tokens: How Byte Latent Transformers (BLT) Are Solving the $10B Language Model Crisis
Tokenization is a hidden tax on every model. How byte-latent transformers attack the $10B cost problem at the architecture level.
AI Advances · Jul 2026
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One substantial piece a week on the AI Infrastructure & Unit Economics spine — cost attribution, FinOps, AI governance as a hidden cost, and the craft of building lean systems. Published in DevSecOps & AI and TechFlows.
AI Cost & FinOps
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AI Governance & Security
Threat models, gateways, policy sprawl
Engineering Craft
Deleting code, leverage, debugging teams
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Recent Articles
Unexpected Costs of Fragmented AI Governance
AI governance sprawl is a hidden cost center: every disconnected policy, tool, and review adds spend nobody attributes back to it.
DevSecOps & AI · 11 min · Jul 2026
The FinOps Tax on AI Engineer Salary Premiums
The cost of AI talent is itself a line item most orgs never attribute — and that hidden tax quietly reshapes unit economics.
DevSecOps & AI · 7 min · Jul 2026
The AI Productivity Paradox
Why more developer tools are making us less effective — and how tooling sprawl shows up on the invoice.
TechFlows · 16 min · May 2026
Your Gateway Filter Stops the Honest User and Annoys the Attacker
A threat-model read on AI gateway filtering: who your controls actually stop, and who they merely inconvenience.
DevSecOps & AI · 6 min · Jun 2026
How Deleting Code Is Becoming the Premium Engineering Skill
The highest-leverage move is often subtraction. Why removing code — and cost — is becoming the skill that compounds.
TechFlows · 23 min · May 2026
Why Your Micromanaging Boss is Actually Broken Code (And How to Debug Them)
A debugging metaphor for dysfunctional management — trace the inputs, find the broken function, ship a fix.
TechFlows · 6 min · May 2026
Netflix Just Reinvented Cable, and Honestly? Iconic.
The streaming bundle came full circle. A short take on incentives, pricing, and how we got back to cable.
TechFlows · 3 min · Jul 2026
Grok 4 shares 5 Ironic Human Truths That'll Make You Chuckle (And Cringe)
A lighter piece: five ironic truths about our species, courtesy of a frontier model.
2 min · Jul 2025
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