Dylan Uys & Ken Miyachi: AI Model Routing, Inference Costs & AI Agents, Yugos, Bittensor
About SN34 Yugos
Who chooses your AI: you, the app, or a router? Dylan Uys and Ken Miyachi return to Ventura Labs after episode 5 for two conversations recorded in Austin. The BitMind co-founders explain Yugos, their new direction for Bittensor subnet 34: choosing the model, provider and reasoning effort for a task. With Dylan, we explore the goal of balancing answer quality, cost and speed, how routing differs from multi-agent orchestration, and the challenge of keeping evaluations useful as models change. With Ken, we discuss the human role in software development, lessons from BitMind, enterprise adoption, provider incentives, and possible business models for agent products. Their cost and product discussions describe early observations, goals and plans as of this recording. Guests and project Dylan Uys: https://x.com/_dubm Ken Miyachi: https://x.com/kenjon Yugos: https://yugos.ai/ Our first conversation, episode 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPrJ3Ro8_1Q Timestamps 00:00 Who chooses your AI? 01:00 Dylan Uys: From BitMind to Yugos 04:09 AI coding workflows and model choice 06:33 The harness versus the model 11:31 Balancing intelligence, cost and speed 13:21 Keeping the model and provider catalog current 16:43 Routing across Bittensor services 20:47 Routing versus multi-agent orchestration 26:01 Benchmark gaming and validation 30:03 Can a routing system build a moat? 31:44 The value of real-world traffic 33:37 Yugos roadmap and custom provider choices 35:55 Local models and privacy 38:24 Agents in the research workflow 40:24 Ken Miyachi: Choosing models, providers and effort 42:29 The future of agent harnesses 47:02 Building a business around the router 52:58 The human role in software development 55:24 Distribution and lessons from BitMind 58:35 Competing with well-funded AI companies 1:00:56 Vendor lock-in and changing models 1:04:01 Yugos go-to-market plans 1:04:57 Token spending and the value of AI work 1:08:51 Research versus production development 1:10:59 Training router
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SN34 Yugos at a glance
SN34, Yugos (α token י), is one of the independent markets on the Bittensor network, each with its own α token and its own price. Its α currently trades at 0.012202 τ (≈ $2.78), against 35,888 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 36.16% APR (simple) and 43.56% APY (compounded), emissions add 0.001711 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #3,493,948.
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