You’re Blaming the Wrong Thing for Your AI’s Rising Costs
We blame AI models for being ‘dumb’ or expensive, but the real bottleneck is our inability to think like software architects. After a month of painful trial and error, I discovered that over-engineering prompts with endless details actually degrades performance. The secret to saving up to 96% on AI costs isn’t a better model—it’s a cleaner, modular architecture. One Skill. One job. Under 200 lines. That’s the formula.