Bilkowski: Probabilistic AI Models Prevent Deterministic Unit Costing in Software
Dan Bilkowski · Value Lives in the Mind of the Customer, Not in Your Product · Oct 21, 2025 · at 6:04
Dan Bilkowski, founder of Product Tranquility, discusses the financial challenges software companies face when integrating AI APIs compared to traditional deterministic software.
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“These systems have this other effect where they're probabilistic, not deterministic... And so you can't just say, oh, deterministically, this is how much it's going to cost us. And so the companies are in this area of exploration right now, where that's causing them to not maybe have the certainty that they may otherwise have in, in some of their costing models.”
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