AI looks amazing on a roadmap, but once it hits production, it starts showing up on your cloud bill. In this talk, we’ll walk through the less obvious cost drivers behind “let’s add AI” (inference, data movement, latency, and ops overhead) and how to sanity-check whether the feature is actually worth it. You’ll leave with a calm, practical way to decide build vs buy vs don’t ship and keep AI from quietly eating your margin.
