3 Costly Mistakes I Made With the OpenAI API (So You Don't Have To)
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You get the first bill from OpenAI and it's 10x what you expected. We've all been there. It's not about the cost of a single call. It's about the thousands of calls you didn't know you were making. Here are three traps I fell into. 1. Forgetting about Temperature and Max Tokens This is the classic.…
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- 2026-08-31 14:06 · DEV Community — AI
3 Costly Mistakes I Made With the OpenAI API (So You Don't Have To)