I thought my cheap AI workflow was fine until I counted 3,000 tiny calls
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I didn’t get burned by one giant GPT-5 prompt. I got burned by a workflow that looked cheap. You know the kind: fetch a batch of records classify each one extract a field or two write a short summary move on Lead enrichment. Support triage. CRM cleanup. Scraped page normalization. Nothing fancy. No…
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- 2026-09-30 06:11 · DEV Community — AI
I thought my cheap AI workflow was fine until I counted 3,000 tiny calls