622 of our 5,087 LLM API calls never returned an answer
Every tutorial about LLM pricing counts calls. You send a request, you get an answer, you multiply. The arithmetic is clean because it assumes somet…
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The Hidden Cost of AI Agents: A Token Budget Framework for Production Laravel Apps
Your Laravel app adds an agent. The controller action looks harmless: one user message, one model call, maybe a tool or two. Then a real tenant conn…
Free Tokens Are a Tool, Not a Promise: Measure Before You Build
Free tokens look generous. They're not a contract. They're an experiment. When you wire a free LLM quota into production, you're betting your respon…
Cutting Cloud Costs with a Few Habits
The Silent Budget Killer Cloud bills creep up. You start with a small instance, a managed database, and a bucket. A year later, you're paying for re…
Backblaze B2 vs Self-Hosted S3: Which Saves More Money?
Backblaze B2 vs Self-Hosted S3: Which Actually Saves More Money in 2026? Backblaze B2's pricing is about as simple as cloud storage gets: $0.00695/G…
Context window sizing for fine-tuning: how long should your training examples be?
Originally published on Loop & Retry — field notes on building LLM agents that survive production. Most fine-tuning guides answer "how many exam…
The most expensive outages return HTTP 200
A 500 is an unexpected jolt from your sleep, while a 200 silently drains your savings. That's the bug you never get trained for. All is functioning.…
How to Control CloudWatch Logs Costs on ECS
How to Control CloudWatch Logs Costs on ECS? Originally published at https://fortem.dev/blog/cloudwatch-costs-ecs ECS sends all logs to CloudWatch w…
What GenAI Actually Costs in Production
The first number anyone quotes when asked what generative AI costs is a per-token figure. It is a comfortable number — small, unambiguous, available…
First real shipped feature with this stack — receipts
I get asked for receipts on every cost number I publish. So here is one full run, end to end, with screenshots replaced by file paths you can read o…