The first AI feature I shipped on a flat plan lost money on the third user who discovered it. Not slowly. Immediately. He was running a script through it on a loop because the UI did not stop him from doing that, and his single account burned through more in API costs that week than the feature was supposed to make in a month. I shipped the fix on a Sunday and rewrote the pricing on a Tuesday, and
Building AI calling agents shouldn't require a commercial license or massive per-minute markups. If you are a Python developer, you should be able to spin up a sub-500ms latency voice agent on your own machine. Prerequisites Python 3.10+ A Twilio or Telnyx SIP Trunk LiveKit Credentials An OpenAI API Key First, clone the Siphon repository and install the requirements. pip install siphon-ai Next, c