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arXiv: cs.AI preprintsInternational6 November 2026

Create Your Own Work Stack: Deploying Self-hosted AI and Tooling in a Tech Startup

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arXiv:2611.08116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-hosting AI is often presented as a way to reduce inference costs and increase control, but deployment introduces its own costs. We report our experience deploying a hybrid AI stack at Grayhat Developers, a small software company with an AI-intensive development workflow. Our initial motivation was to counter the growing cost of commercial AI usage: Claude/Codex incurred approximately \$325 per month, with more than 25.93 billion recorded tokens. We experimented with local open-source models as replacements for commercial coding agents, but a
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