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Edge ML Has a Size Obsession

DEV Community·David Aronchick·28 days ago
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UPS could deliver your Amazon package on a cargo e-bike. In most cities, for most packages, this would actually be faster. No parking. No traffic. Straight to your door. Instead, a 16,000-pound truck idles outside your apartment building while the driver walks up three flights of stairs with an envelope containing a phone charger. It's not that UPS is stupid. The truck handles the complicated cases: bulk deliveries, heavy items, and commercial routes with 200 stops. Once you've built infrastructure for complex cases, running it for easy cases feels free. Same truck, same driver, same route. Why optimize? But "feels free" isn't free. The truck burns diesel at idle. It needs a commercial parking spot that doesn't exist. The driver spends 30% of their day not delivering packages but managing the logistics of operating a vehicle designed for a more complex problem than most stops actually present. Edge ML has the same problem.…

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