DevFlow Conf 2027

May 11 – May 14, 2027Moscone West · San Francisco, CA
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Track: AI EngineeringTrack: Infrastructure & ScaleFormat: TalkLevel: Intermediate

The Economics of Context Windows

Tuesday, May 11: 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Presidio Room

Longer context is not free. A cost model for context spend, with the break-even points where retrieval beats stuffing the window.

Speakers (1)

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    Jonas Weber

    Infrastructure Lead, Kestrel Compute

    Jonas has been on call for GPU fleets since before it was fashionable. He writes about scheduling, spot capacity and the true cost of a token.