Most people talk to an LLM the way they’d talk to a search engine: type a few words, hope for the best, complain when the answer is generic. That’s not a model problem. It’s a prompting problem. ...
Every token an LLM API processes has a price tag, on the way in and on the way out. That fact turns “write better prompts” from a productivity tip into a line item. Most organizations treat AI spend as an unavoidable cost of doing business; in practice, a meaningful chunk of it is just badly engineered prompts paying for their own inefficiency. ...