Turns out cheap tokens get engineers doing things that save time, like debugging and tackling Jira tickets Revolut says that in less than a year it managed to slash its AI coding inference costs by roughly 90 percent by making self hosted models its default instead of relying primarily on commercial services like Claude. Speaking at the AI Engineer conference in New York last month, David Abitbol, ops and infrastructure lead at the British fintech, described how it saw a 60 percent improvement...
