Practical Tips to Save AI Tokens
DanielLockyer · x · 2026-07-09
This retweet summarizes practical ways to reduce AI token consumption: be specific in prompts, send only relevant code snippets, compress old conversations into brief summaries, use RAG instead of pasting entire documents, and cache repeated prompts. The core takeaway is that you aren't "paying for AI"—you're paying for every single word you input into the model.
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