Name: Sponsored Demo: Cut the Bill, Not the Brains. AI Coding Agents That Ship More and Cost Less - Matas Kaminskas, Cast AI
Start: 2026-06-18T16:30:00+0530
End: 2026-06-18T16:50:00+0530

18-19 June
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Sponsored Demo: Cut the Bill, Not the Brains. AI Coding Agents That Ship More and Cost Less - Matas Kaminskas, Cast AI

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:30pm - 4:50pm IST

205 (Level 2)

Your AI coding bill is going to surprise you. Not because the models stopped working - because they're working too well, and you're running everything through the most expensive ones by default.

There's a 12× per-token cost gap between frontier and OSS models. On real coding benchmarks, the gap in output quality is almost nothing. The difference is the harness - the layer most teams never touch.

This talk is about that layer: how automatic task routing cuts spend without touching quality, why the harness matters more than the model you pick, and what the infrastructure underneath actually looks like (vLLM, prefix caching, Kubernetes-native GPU orchestration).

Based on Kimchi, the open-source coding agent we built after our own Anthropic bill went vertical. Practical, benchmarked, runs today.

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Speakers

Matas Kaminskas

Senior Engineering Manager, Cast AI

Matas is a Senior Engineering Manager at CAST AI, leading Kimchi - an open-source AI coding agent and inference platform built on open-source models. He has spent 10+ years building distributed systems and helping companies cut Kubernetes infrastructure costs at scale.

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:30pm - 4:50pm IST
205 (Level 2)

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026

Matas Kaminskas

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