Astraas·Author

Raunak A.

Writes about technology for Astraas — hardware, software, AI and the money moving through all three.

• 7 Aug The GTA 6 deal makes more sense once you see which Netflix desk it came from Netflix gets six hours with the next Grand Theft Auto 6 footage before it reaches YouTube on 27 August. The Netflix e…
• 7 Aug Google built an agent that does everything except pay Ask Maps can now order food, book hotels and plan days across 150 more countries. Google says it completes every step…
• 7 Aug The Private Relay leak matters because no iOS browser can route around it Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry found that WebKit's passkey handling bypasses iCloud Private Relay, exposing a real IP…
• 4 Aug The subscription breakeven is 154 million tokens a month Everyone knows a Claude subscription is cheaper than the API for heavy use. Nobody says where the line is. I measured…
• 4 Aug A cache entry pays for itself on the second read Cache writes cost 25% extra and reads save 90%, putting break-even at 1.39 reads. Across 34 days caching saved $43,32…
• 4 Aug I routed 7% of my calls to cheap models. It saved 0.89% Model routing is the standard cost advice. Across 1,594 calls, Haiku and Sonnet together came to $57.84 of a $6,465 b…
• 4 Aug My backtest said Sharpe 2.74. Real data said 0.35 Nineteen systematic strategies tested. Fourteen died to transaction costs. The one that looked spectacular was a prox…
• 4 Aug Inference got 95% cheaper. Your bill went up anyway GPT-4-class inference fell from $30 per million tokens to under $0.50 in two years. Enterprise spend on it roughly do…
• 4 Aug 95% of enterprise AI pilots return nothing. The failure isn't the model MIT studied 300 enterprise AI deployments and found 95% delivered no measurable P&L impact. What the surviving 5% did…
• 3 Aug I logged 9.96 billion tokens in 34 days. Output was 8% of the bill Every guide to cutting LLM costs opens with the same advice: shorten your outputs. I costed 34 days of real agentic w…