Tag: Self-Hosted AI

• The Meter is a Map

  

  Photo by Tyler on Unsplash Author’s Note When I published The Token Tax three weeks ago, I expected the cost conversation around enterprise AI to keep growing. I did not expect it to accelerate this quickly. In the time since, the same pattern has surfaced across the industry in plain view: companies exhausting an entire…

  Dom

  May 31, 2026

  Architecture & Reliability, Artificial Intelligence

  AI, AI adoption, AI Agents, AI Costs, AI governance, AI infrastructure, AI Strategy, Automation, Business Process Management, Claude Code, copilot, Deterministic Systems, enterprise AI, Enterprise Architecture, GitHub Copilot, Goodhart’s Law, Microsoft, Model Routing, Operational Telemetry, Organizational Ambiguity, Power Platform, Process Design, Process Improvement, SaaS, Self-Hosted AI, technical debt, Token Costs, Tokenmaxxing, Usage-Based Billing, Vendor Dependency, workflow automation

• Building Aria: Part 1 – Giving Shape to a Thought

  

  Photo by EJ Strat on Unsplash Framing the Problem Everyone in tech seems to have a strong opinion on AI these days—especially generative AI, the kind that powers everything from chatbots to deepfakes to essays in classrooms. For the past year, I’ve been immersed in it, testing the major models, subscribing to the usual suspects,…

  Dom

  September 13, 2025

  Artificial Intelligence, technology, Work Trends

  AI, AI Architecture, AI Tools, Automation, Chatbots, Docker, infrastructure, LLM, LLM Stack, Local AI, Machine Learning, n8n, Ollama, open source, Orchestration, PostgreSQL, Prompt Engineering, Qdrant, Self-Hosted AI, Vector Search