Your ChatGPT API bill is high because your prompts are bloated. Here's a free checklist to fix it
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Last month I opened my OpenAI usage dashboard and found something embarrassing: I was sending the same ~400-token system prompt on every single call — even when the user just typed "yes" or "thanks." That's not a model problem. That's a prompt problem, and it's an easy one to fix once you can see i…
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- 2026-10-11 05:03 · DEV Community — AI
Your ChatGPT API bill is high because your prompts are bloated. Here's a free checklist to fix it