Posts
Notes on AI token economics.
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Why Premium Models Waste Money on Extraction Tasks
How choosing GPT-5 flagship over specialized extraction solutions wastes $387K annually. Smart model routing strategies that cut AI costs by 60-80% without sacrificing quality.
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Why $30K Model Costs Hide $200K Infrastructure Problems
Why companies obsess over AI model costs while ignoring 95% of their document processing expenses. Build resilient extraction pipelines that prioritize reliability over price.
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Why Inference Costs More Than Training (And Always Will)
Training gets all the glory in AI, but inference does all the work. Understanding the economics and physics behind AI deployment.
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How Bad Error Handling Turns $10 Failures into $1000 Bills
How naive retry logic with GPT-5 and Claude APIs can multiply costs by 5x, plus exponential backoff strategies that prevent $12K monthly overcharges.
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Why Max Tokens Defaults Are Draining Your Budget
Discover how unconfigured max tokens settings are silently multiplying your AI API costs by 2-5x and learn strategic frameworks to optimize token usage without sacrificing quality.
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Stop Paying 40x More for Redundant AI Instructions
Why static system prompts running 50,000 times daily waste $47K monthly, and how dynamic context injection cuts Claude API costs by 87.5%.
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Why Context Windows Drain AI Budgets 10x Faster
How sending full conversation history with every API call can multiply your AI costs by 10x, plus a sliding window solution that cuts costs by 87.5%.