The Hidden Cost of Complex AI Platforms: Why Developer Experience Matters

The cloud AI platform ecosystem today looks more powerful than ever, with access to powerful GPUs like NVIDIA H100 and H200, massive libraries of pre-trained models, and full pipelines for fine-tuning and inference. ​​I recently tried deploying a simple inference endpoint for a model. Ideally, it should have taken a few minutes: provision compute load the model send a request Instead, it took closer to two hours before I got a successful response. Not because the model was difficult to run, but because of everything around it: Figuring out where to start No clear documentation Generating and…