Tagged “cost”

3 posts.

All Model Architecture19 Training & Alignment22 Inference & Serving18 Agents & Orchestration11 Reasoning & Evaluation26 Safety, Security & Governance7 Platforms & Practice20

Inference & Serving 25 min

How Many Tokens Is an Image? The Resolution Policy That Decides Your VLM Bill

The same 1024x1024 screenshot costs 576 visual tokens in one model and 2,880 in another, and the cheap one cannot read the text. The rule that turns pixels into tokens is the least examined hyperparameter in the multimodal stack,…

vision-multimodal vlm tokenisation inference ∑ ◫

Platforms & Practice 3 min

Stop fine-tuning for facts: the silent productivity tax of mis-matched tools

Most teams reach for fine-tuning when they should reach for retrieval. The cost is not just dollars - it is months of confused engineers trying to figure out why the model started lying again.

rag retrieval fine-tuning architecture

Agents & Orchestration 24 min

The Context Economics of Agents: Why Every 2025 Advance Was the Same Move

One workflow, 150,000 tokens down to 2,000. A subagent that burns fifty thousand tokens and returns fifteen hundred. A hundred installed skills that cost two thousand tokens until one is needed. Four separate advances, four separ…

agents context-engineering mcp tool-use ∑ ◫