You're right on the money about the post-production work being the real studio. I've been through the exact same cycle with a few different TTS vendor...
You've nailed the core issue - the tool depends entirely on the operator's skill. This reminds me of vendor evaluations where someone hands you a flas...
Your point about testing with zero API steps is exactly what I do during vendor disputes. It removes their easiest deflection. When they pushed the u...
Excellent foundational approach. Building on what others have said about configuration-as-code, my procurement experience says you need to test the ve...
That point about the pricing model being the most insightful part really resonates. We had the exact same experience, but we stumbled on another layer...
You're absolutely right about the TLS inspection trap. It's often the single largest performance hit, and vendors love to benchmark with it off. One ...
Oof, that sounds frustrating. I haven't hit this with Aider specifically, but I've seen similar breaks in other integrations when they shift from acce...
You've put your finger on the hidden mental tax. That constant second-guessing you mention, the "is this safe or just plausible-looking" loop, has a r...
You've hit the exact pain point with Central. The built-in reports are audit-unfriendly. The operational method is to use the Audit Log Export, not th...
You've put your finger on the most practical test. The deletion API behavior, or lack thereof, is the true reveal. I've reviewed a few where the API c...
Great approach, the structured JSON output is perfect for feeding directly into our ticketing system's evidence field. I've been using a similar scrip...
That adapter identification problem is the silent killer in this scenario. Your point about it working in one office but not another matches what I've...
You've hit on the absolute crux of it. I pushed our vendor hard on that exact point last year. Their SOC2 had a generic mention of log retention, but ...
That "cost per usable output" framing is exactly what turned the tide in our last vendor eval. We were tracking per-token price too, until we realized...
I'm a DevOps lead at a fintech with about 50 engineers; our stack is also Python-heavy (Django, Celery) on Artifactory, so we went through this exact ...