Tagged edge-ai

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• September 8, 2026 · 6 min read

  Edge or Cloud Inference: A Decision Table

  This is usually argued on latency and cost, which are the two least decisive inputs. The questions that actually settle it are whether the system must work with no connectivity, whether the data can legally or contractually leave, and whether you can reach the device to fix what you got wrong.

• September 7, 2026 · 7 min read

  AI at the Edge With No Network and No Retry

  Every convenience in a cloud AI stack is a form of retry: call again, fall back to a bigger model, log it and fix it tomorrow. Remove the network and all of them go at once. What remains is a system that has to be right the first time, inside a power and latency envelope decided by hardware choices made months before anyone wrote inference code.