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I write about what I'm actually doing: building things, breaking them, and figuring out what works. Enterprise retail systems, AI tooling, local inference, agentic workflows, and the gap between how technology is sold and how it runs in production.
Open Models Now Match 90% of Frontier Quality at up to 84% Lower Cost. So Why Are You Still Just Renting?A practical framework for deciding when to rent frontier AI APIs, use cloud-hosted open models, or own inference through self-hosting.May 15, 2026Vendor Lock-In Was Yesterday's Problem. Operational Lock-In Is What's Killing AI Adoption.Why retail AI adoption fails when legacy operations, fragmented data, batch systems, and institutional habits become harder to move than vendors.May 01, 2026