From devrel to CTO: juggling 12 cloud and AI providers and still running out of compute
NERDDISCO · x · 2026-10-22
Developer NERDDISCO shared a before/after of his year, a snapshot of the AI builder compute grind:
- Early 2026: devrel at RunPod, with as much compute as he wanted for whatever he wanted
- Oct 2026: co-founder & CTO at Kale Computer, simultaneously using Modal, Baseten, RunPod, fal, OpenAI, Anthropic, Vercel, AWS, Cloudflare, ElevenLabs, Capy and Cognition — still not enough compute
Part self-deprecating meme, part industry reality check: real-world AI startup infrastructure bills are spread across a dozen vendors.
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