Why Your $200 AI Workflow Actually Costs $20k in DevOps 😭

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately looking at different AI automation setups. Mostly, I've just been trying to figure out where the actual leverage is for smaller engineering and ops teams. What I keep finding? A lot of what we're calling "AI workflows" are really just traditional, deterministic scripts with a chatbot tacked onto the front. And for the ones that actually do rely on LLMs for core logic? They end up being surprisingly expensive to run in production. But rarely for the rea...