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Author: sudaangi
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Why AI Teams Struggle Without a System Design Mindset
Most AI outages I get called into are not model problems. They are system problems wearing model symptoms. The app is slow, answers change between retries, costs spike on Tuesdays,…
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The true cost of self‑hosting LLMs vs using APIs
The real bill usually arrives at p95 I keep seeing the same pattern: a team proves out a feature on an API, gets a scary bill, then someone says “we…
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Why your LLM response time is inconsistent
The real reason your LLM is fast at 11 am and painful at 3 pm You ship a chat feature. Median comes back in 800 ms in staging. In prod,…
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Scaling GenAI from PoC to Production: What Breaks and How to Fix It
The uncomfortable gap between a great demo and a stable product The PoC nails a few curated prompts. The team celebrates. Two weeks later the first production users show up…
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The AI Demo Trap: Closing the gap to real business value
The painful pattern A team ships a slick internal demo. It answers questions, writes code, summarizes PDFs. The room nods. Then you wire it to real data, real users, real…
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GPU vs CPU for AI Workloads: The Real Cost-Performance Trade-offs
The painful question I get every quarter We are spending a fortune on GPUs. Can we move inference to CPUs and cut cost without blowing up latency? I have walked…
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Streaming vs batching in LLM systems: how I decide in production
The painful truth about streaming vs batching If your chat UI feels snappy in the demo but falls apart under real traffic, you probably picked the wrong side in the…
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The biggest misconception leaders have about AI implementation
The painful truth: your AI problem is not the model If your team is stuck swapping models every month and your roadmap keeps slipping, you are likely chasing the wrong…
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More Data Won’t Fix Your AI System
The common failure mode: “let’s just add more data” I see this play out every quarter. Metrics flatten, users complain about wrong answers, latency creeps up. Someone proposes a fix…
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Caching strategies for LLM systems that actually work
The silent reason your LLM bill is 2x higher than it should be If your latency is spiky, your OpenAI or self-hosted bill is creeping up, and your team keeps…
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