Redditor builds a dashboard to track how much they paid for LLM 'load-bearing words'
LazyNick7 · reddit · 2026-09-03
A Redditor riffs on the 'load-bearing words' phenomenon in LLM outputs and shows off a dashboard they built to track exactly how much money those wasted tokens cost them—highlighting how verbose padding turns into real money under token-based pricing.
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