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When evaluating migrating production LLM workloads off commercial cloud APIs, the conversation usually gets oversimplified into a trade-off between quality and infrastructure cost. To look past clean, isolated averages, I built a repeatable evaluation matrix using a real-world wo
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When evaluating migrating production LLM workloads off commercial cloud APIs, the conversation usually gets oversimplified into a trade-off between quality and infrastructure cost. To look past clean, isolated averages, I built a repeatable evaluation matrix using a real-world workload: cold outreach and contextual profile re-engineering for my resume generation platform. I benchmarked an unquanti
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