In the gold rush of modern software development, a new kind of engineering has taken center stage: AI Engineering . But as developers and enterprises rush to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into their workflows, they quickly run into a jarring reality check. It’s what we call the Capacity Conundrum —a structural bottleneck that mirrors the classic Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule), completely shifting how we think about computing budgets and model selection. If you try to throw the b...