AI Cost Transparency Is Worse Than Kubernetes — Here’s Why

The challenge of connecting AI usage and system behavior to cost

AI Economics The problem isn’t usage. It’s control. Kubernetes cost transparency was hard. AI cost transparency is worse. Not incrementally worse. Fundamentally worse. Kubernetes Was Complex — But It Had Structure Kubernetes introduced real challenges: Shared infrastructure Indirect resource consumption Difficult allocation models Overprovisioning hidden in requests versus usage Over time, things improved. OpenCost helped […]