He blew $10,000 on an OpenAI wrapper, then paid $2k/month more to fix it
BobbyBizScout · reddit · 2026-10-13
A founder spent $10,000 building a product feature on an OpenAI wrapper that kept hallucinating and mishandling company data. An AI engineer switched them to a pricier model with more tokens — about $2k/month extra — and quality transformed. Lesson: skimping on model tier and token budget costs you output quality.
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