A TinyCTO.tv Hype Stack technical parable about autoscaling, cost explosion, unbounded demand. Autoscale against bounded demand, loop detection, unit economics, and business priorities—not raw request count.
# Episode 168 — The Autoscaler Scaled the Bill — Script
## Concept autoscaling;cost explosion;unbounded demand
## Hype promise A shared AI platform will make inference fast, observable, and economically predictable.
## System reality The autoscaler responds perfectly to an agent loop that generates its own traffic and retries.
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