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Healthcare is one of the last places I think about for GenAI but maybe I have that totally wrong. Seemingly factual accuracy is a premium in that industry. I guess protein generation is a little different.

On the other side of this, understanding usage based consumption billing as a customer is very tough. First got exposure to this working on https://ec2instances.info.

These looks fantastic. Very slight weirdness in some movement, hands, etc. But the main thing that strikes me is the cinematic tracking shots. I guess that's why they use "scenes". It doesn't seem like a movie could be generated with this involving actors talking.

This only applies if these developers move to the new terms it looks like. So these large apps can stay with their existing setups and not pay the fee.

Yeah. In an infrastructure as code setup there's some more rigor that can be applied, at least in terms of tagging what's going out. But I've generally seen the finops team come in and optimize ex post facto.

This post, along with this Simon Wardley thread, https://twitter.com/swardley/status/1088780650860158978?s=20, attracted me to finops as an engineering problem. Consumption based pricing is really tough for a lot of orgs to handle at the $1M+ range, so much so that it requires dedicated software to line things up.

I started helping maintain https://ec2instances.info in my spare time and the code base is literally full of IF statements to paper over AWS billing quirks. Later, I joined Vantage, one of the companies linked in the article.

It's a little bit undecided whether finops will have the growth that devops did but the problem is seemingly felt very acutely.

If I'm reading this right Apple chose Google 3 times over Bing.

Bard is not bad but it's really Google's search generative experience that you want to have it enabled. I think it is really fantastic.

USB-C actually unlocks this I believe.

If you hook up https://vantage.sh you can filter by RDS costs > Cost by Category on a Cost Report to see this.

Disclaimer: I work for Vantage.

PS. I maintain https://ec2instances.info/rds and recently added support for Aurora I/O Optimized pricing.

The salesforce object model/API is actually pretty reasonable and easy to work with. Their UI is horrible but the Lightning version is fast at least.