Blog Why the Same Prompt Gives You a Different Answer Every Time One prompt, 1,000 runs at temperature 0, 80 different answers. Why LLMs vary, and how to get output that's consistent enough for production.
Blog Build Your Own LLM Router or Use a Managed One? How to Decide An LLM router is easy to start and expensive to own. What building, self-hosting and buying really cost, and five questions to decide.
Blog How to Write Prompts for AI Image Models Good AI image prompts read like a brief, not a keyword list. A five-part template, plus how to handle text, edits and negative prompts.
Blog How to Write Prompts for AI Video Models A video model needs a shot, not a picture. A five-part template for AI video prompts, plus what changes for image-to-video, audio and negatives.
Blog Why Every AI Provider's API Is Different (and What to Do About It) Most requests survive a provider swap. Ignored parameters, odd tool calls and three ways a stream ends don't. How to contain LLM API differences.
Blog The Hidden Costs of Running AI in Production Resent context, hidden reasoning tokens, retries and engineering time: where AI costs in production really come from, and how to cut them.
Blog How to Point a Coding Agent at a Different Model Provider A base URL, a credential, a model ID: that's all any coding agent wants. The four places they go, one test that proves it, and what stops working.
Blog How to Choose a Text-to-Speech API for Your App They all sound good now. Choose a text-to-speech API on latency shape, billing unit, prosody control and voice rights instead.
Blog What to Do When You Hit an AI Model's Context Limit In one study of 18 models, short prompts beat 113k-token ones every time. What's really filling your context window, and what to cut first.
Blog How to Choose an AI Model: A Four-Step Method That Won't Go Stale Leaderboards go stale. A four-step method to choose an AI model on your own data, and shrink to the cheapest one that still clears the bar.
Blog AI Model Deprecation: What to Do When Your Model Is Retired The same AI model can retire on three different dates. How to find the deprecation date that applies to you and replace the model in time.
Blog Image to Video Workflow: How to Chain an Image Model into a Video Model Generate the still, then animate it. How to chain an image model into a video model without losing the frame, the file or the look.
Blog AI in TVC Production: From Brief to Client Approval The shoot is 1–3 days of a 3–5 week job. Where AI actually compresses a TVC — and where it must stop.
Blog How to Keep Characters Consistent Across an AI Short Drama Series RPM halved while traffic eats 70% of revenue. Four layers that stop a re-generated scene costing you the margin.
Blog AI Previs for Film and VFX: What to Automate Before the Shot Goes Final Previs used to need a $35M budget. What AI can take off a VFX pipeline — and where it has to stop.