That "be helpful and friendly" paragraph in your system prompt costs $708 a year
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Every chatbot tutorial starts the same way: write a system prompt. So you write one. Then a teammate adds a paragraph about tone, someone pastes in the company history, and three months later the prompt reads like a README. Nobody prices that README, because it never shows up as a line item. It sho…
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- 2026-10-19 11:00 · DEV Community — AI
That "be helpful and friendly" paragraph in your system prompt costs $708 a year