
Why AI inference costs keep falling faster than anyone predicted
Cheaper serving is reshaping which AI products can exist at all — and the pressure is moving from training budgets to runtime margins.
Elena Marsh · February 18, 2026 · 8 min read
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For fifteen years creators rented their identity and their discovery from social platforms. The profile page is where some of that is quietly being bought back.
Daniel Okoye · August 27, 2026 · 9 min read

Views and clicks are the easy part. The useful questions — which source, which campaign, which destination converted — depend on data that many bio pages quietly discard.
Daniel Okoye · August 25, 2026 · 9 min read

When answers are assembled from retrieved documents, a creator page stops being only a destination and starts being a potential source.
Elena Marsh · August 22, 2026 · 8 min read

Three outcomes get collapsed into one metric. Being used as a source, being named, and being recommended are produced by different mechanisms and need different measurement.
Elena Marsh · August 19, 2026 · 9 min read

A reference page on Linklay: what the product is, what it publishes, how its pages relate to search engines, and where it sits in the link-in-bio software category.
Daniel Okoye · August 12, 2026 · 9 min read

A technical walkthrough of what actually determines whether a profile page can be crawled, indexed and understood — and which parts a hosted platform controls for you.
Priya Raman · August 8, 2026 · 10 min read

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Models, inference economics, tooling and how machine learning reaches real products.

Cheaper serving is reshaping which AI products can exist at all — and the pressure is moving from training budgets to runtime margins.
Elena Marsh · February 18, 2026 · 8 min read

Classification, extraction and routing are moving off frontier models and onto systems small enough to run on a laptop.
Elena Marsh · February 11, 2026 · 6 min read

Autonomy demos well and deploys badly. The companies making it work are the ones narrowing scope rather than widening it.
Daniel Okoye · February 5, 2026 · 7 min read
How software is built, priced, distributed and maintained at scale.

The single-page link list was never the product. Attribution, retargeting pixels and first-party click data are what creators are actually buying now.
Daniel Okoye · August 29, 2026 · 7 min read

Review, testing and deployment are collapsing into the place code is written. Integration is becoming the product.
Daniel Okoye · February 20, 2026 · 5 min read

When software does the work instead of the person using it, charging per person stops describing the value delivered.
Daniel Okoye · January 29, 2026 · 7 min read
Funding, company building, and the operating reality of early-stage technology firms.

Smaller teams, longer diligence, and a higher bar for evidence — the anatomy of early-stage funding in 2026.
Daniel Okoye · January 22, 2026 · 6 min read

One person can now run infrastructure that needed a platform team. The constraint has moved from capability to judgement.
Daniel Okoye · January 14, 2026 · 5 min read
Search, publishing, protocols and the economics of the open web.

Generated answers are absorbing the clicks that funded the web. Publishers are rebuilding around direct audiences.
Priya Raman · February 14, 2026 · 7 min read

Crawler traffic is now a material infrastructure cost for small sites, and the tools for managing it are blunt.
Priya Raman · February 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Authentication, supply chains, incidents and defensive engineering.

Phishing-resistant sign-in has crossed from standards work into default consumer behaviour. Account recovery is the remaining weak point.
Priya Raman · January 30, 2026 · 6 min read

Compromising one widely used package reaches further than compromising one company. Defences are consolidating around provenance.
Priya Raman · January 19, 2026 · 7 min read
Link-in-bio software, creator landing pages, profile analytics and how creator pages are discovered through search and AI retrieval.

For fifteen years creators rented their identity and their discovery from social platforms. The profile page is where some of that is quietly being bought back.
Daniel Okoye · August 27, 2026 · 9 min read

Views and clicks are the easy part. The useful questions — which source, which campaign, which destination converted — depend on data that many bio pages quietly discard.
Daniel Okoye · August 25, 2026 · 9 min read

When answers are assembled from retrieved documents, a creator page stops being only a destination and starts being a potential source.
Elena Marsh · August 22, 2026 · 8 min read
Practical, source-backed explainers for technical and business decisions.

A practical framework for comparing model vendors on the criteria that survive contact with production.
Elena Marsh · February 16, 2026 · 9 min read

Most overspending comes from four line items. Finding them takes an afternoon.
Daniel Okoye · January 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Hardware, silicon, energy and the physical systems the digital world runs on.

From smarter manufacturing to a more transparent shopping experience, one supplement maker is bringing modern technology into an industry that has stayed the same for decades.
Daniel Okoye · August 29, 2026 · 7 min read

Compute capacity is increasingly limited by electricity and interconnection queues rather than by chip supply.
Elena Marsh · February 8, 2026 · 8 min read

Designing your own chip used to be a strategy for three companies. It is becoming a standard cost-control measure.
Elena Marsh · January 26, 2026 · 6 min read