AnalysisDevelopersJuly 18, 2026
200 users burned $1,000 in credits; dev builds custom inference

Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan of Kalmantic Labs recounts how 200 users burned $1,000 in API credits, prompting him to build custom inference infrastructure. He argues that renting cognitive infrastructure is unsustainable.
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