https://cascadia.to/blog Engineering deep-dives from Cascadia on distributed LLM inference, Intel AI PC fleet operations, and on-prem AI. en-US Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:43:09 GMT https://cascadia.to/blog/intelligence-deflation https://cascadia.to/blog/intelligence-deflation Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT Three years of public data say two curves are real, and together they mean most AI infrastructure being bought today is a deflating asset acquired at scarcity prices. Every number links to its source; every model is on the page, not behind it. intelligence deflation AI capex model densification GPU total cost of ownership small language models