I Shipped DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM: A CTO's Field Notes
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I gotta say, i Shipped DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM: A CTO's Field Notes Six weeks ago I was staring at a $41,000 monthly OpenAI bill that had quietly tripled over a quarter. As CTO of a 14-person startup processing roughly 18 million LLM tokens a day for a mix of customer support automation, document parsing, and code review tooling, I had a problem: the unit economics of my product were getting worse every month, and I was one pricing change away from being unprofitable. So I did what any…
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- I gotta say, i Shipped DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM: A CTO's Field Notes Six weeks ago I was staring at a $41,000 monthly OpenAI bill that had quietly tripled over a quarter.
- As CTO of a 14-person startup processing roughly 18 million LLM tokens a day for a mix of customer support automation, document parsing, and code review tooling, I had a problem: the unit economics of my product were getting worse every month, and I was one pricing change away from being unprofitable.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that i gotta say, i Shipped DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM: A CTO's Field Notes Six weeks ago I was staring at a $41,000 monthly OpenAI bill that had quietly tripled over a quarter.
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