How to reduce AI token cost before sending a prompt
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AI cost is often treated as a model-selection problem. It is also an input-preparation problem. Every repeated header, navigation block, page number, comment, empty field, and duplicate sentence takes context space. That can increase cost, slow a response, and make the useful instructions harder fo…
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- 2026-09-11 18:57 · DEV Community — AI
How to reduce AI token cost before sending a prompt