In 2026, inference accounts for 85% of enterprise AI budgets — and agentic loops mean costs can spiral quadratically from a single runaway task. This post builds a complete LLM cost governance system: per-feature attribution, tenant budgets with hard limits, spend anomaly detection, and the optimization levers that cut bills without touching quality.
Tag: AI Production
Prompt Management and Versioning: Treating Prompts as Production Code
Prompt changes are production changes. A wording edit at 3pm on a Friday can silently degrade thousands of responses with no error signal. This post builds a production-grade prompt management system with versioning, A/B testing, quality gates, and rollback in Node.js, Python, and C#.
Distributed Tracing for LLM Applications with OpenTelemetry
You cannot fix what you cannot see. This post walks through instrumenting a full LLM pipeline with OpenTelemetry in Node.js, Python, and C# — capturing every span from user request through retrieval, model call, tool execution, and response.
