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Five few-shot examples nearly doubled the cost of my short LLM prompt

You write a prompt that turns messy expense notes into JSON. The model gets the format slightly wrong once, so you add an example of a note and the JSON you expect. Then a second one for euros, a third for dates, and two more for luck. The output looks great and the prompt ships. What doesn't show…

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  1. 2026-11-08 12:00 · DEV Community — AI
    Five few-shot examples nearly doubled the cost of my short LLM prompt

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