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I measured what my prompts were wasting. Most of it wasn't the wording.

I expected cutting tokens to mean rewriting instructions. Mostly it didn't. The waste in the prompts I looked at was mechanical: Pretty-printed JSON schemas. Indentation is paid for on every call. The same rule written two or three times , often in different sections. Polite filler , like "I would…

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  1. 2026-10-29 23:22 · r/PromptEngineering
    I measured what my prompts were wasting. Most of it wasn't the wording.

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