Infrastructure

Your AI Infrastructure Bill Is Probably 10x What It Should Be. Here's How to Know.

The five architectural anti-patterns I see in almost every startup's AI infrastructure — and the specific changes that typically reduce costs by 50-90% without touching model quality.

Manmeet SinghFounder, AIshar Labs · Ex-Apple, Ex-Instacart

9 min readApril 2026

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Manmeet Singh

Founder & CEO, AIshar Labs · Ex-Apple, Ex-Instacart · 15 AI Patents

Built ML systems at Apple (Search: Maps, Safari, Spotlight) and Instacart (Search, Recommendations, Ranking). Writes about production AI tradeoffs and system design.

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