AI Course Learner's Eye-Opener: Every New Question Resends the Entire Conversation
jbarbier · x · 2026-09-18
Sharing a lesson from Cyberiad Labs' intro-to-AI course: learner Joe realized that every new question in the same chat resends the entire conversation to the model, so each interaction costs more than the last. A simple but eye-opening fact that explains why long chats get progressively more expensive.
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