'We were highly skeptical about the cost of AI': Revolut reveals it cut AI coding costs by cutting out Claude entirely
THE SO WHAT
Revolut moving from a hosted assistant to self-hosted models to cut coding costs is the clearest sign yet that hyperscaler LLM APIs are a bridge, not the destination, for heavy users. If your AI line item is spiking, you should be modeling when infra + ops overhead beats per-token pricing.
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