THE TECHNICAL RECORD
Insights & Essays.
Architectural post-mortems, Generative AI implementation guides, and the reality of technical sovereignty in 2026.
Cloud / FinOps
Multi-Cloud AI FinOps 2026: Unit Economics Across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
A practitioner's breakdown of AI spend anatomy, normalized $/1M agent step costs, tagging and chargeback patterns, and model-mix routing as a FinOps lever — with a head-to-head TCO comparison across AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and Vertex AI.
AI Tools
GitHub Copilot AI Credits & Agentic IDE Economics 2026: The Full TCO Breakdown
GitHub switched from flat-fee to AI Credits in June 2026. Here's what that actually costs your team—solo dev to enterprise—plus a head-to-head TCO model across Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and Antigravity.