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Cut Your AI Costs: Tips for Efficient Chat Usage
Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where the chat window looks free and the bill disagrees. Mara: Christoph Corder has been writing about the hidden mechanics of AI assistants — how context windows fill up, what that costs you, and whether anyone should be paying for wrong answers in the first place. Let's start with the…
Why Your AI Assistant Acts Like a Goldfish
Every chat feels like a conversation. It isn’t. Your AI assistant is a goldfish holding a photograph of you. It forgets you the instant you hit Enter. Then a script slides the photograph, the entire history, and a small mountain of standing instructions back in front of it, and it reads the whole pile again…
“The Token Bill You Didn’t Know You Were Running Up”
Three habits that quietly inflate your AI bill AI does not charge by the question. It charges by the context. Every turn you send re-tokenizes the entire conversation above it: system prompt, memories, style preferences, every previous message, every previous response. Turn one is cheap. Turn twenty is paying for turns one through nineteen, plus…
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