CLIEncoders · Insights
Written when a question has come up more than once. No listicles, no predictions, and no article that ends by recommending whatever we happen to sell.
Connectivity is the first hardware decision with consequences everywhere else — battery size, enclosure, recurring cost, and what the product can do at all. It is also frequently chosen by habit rather than by requirement.
Self-hosting a language model is usually pitched as the cheaper option and usually is not. It becomes cheaper above a volume threshold that is higher than most people estimate — and for many organisations the real driver was never cost at all.
Most technical SEO advice for Next.js is a list of tags. The tags are the easy part. The decisions that actually determine whether a site can rank are architectural, and three of them are painful to reverse once content exists.