Leave a session idle for an hour, send one prompt, and watch the cost jump. There's a specific reason, and it has nothing to do with your prompt.
@powerbitips.bsky.social
@powerbitips.bsky.socialLeave a session idle for an hour, send one prompt, and watch the cost jump. There's a specific reason, and it has nothing to do with your prompt.
@powerbitips.bsky.socialAutomatic model routing sounds great until you see the bill. The engine picks the model, you pay its rate, and you barely get a say.
@powerbitips.bsky.socialSenior engineering managers used to estimate man hours and worker costs in their sleep. That skill has to be rebuilt for agents, and almost nobody has the data yet.
#engineeringmanagement #aiagents #techleadership #aicost #softwareteams
@powerbitips.bsky.socialStory points and sprint planning gave leadership a way to price human effort. Nothing like that exists for agents burning tokens, and somebody has to allocate that budget.
@powerbitips.bsky.socialClaude Code in one window, Copilot in another, Grok in a third. All useful, all billing. There's no dashboard anywhere that tells you what one task actually cost.
@powerbitips.bsky.socialCached input can cost a tenth of raw input, and long sessions are where you cash in. Swap models halfway through and that discount resets to zero.
@foundersunchained.bsky.socialThe real cost of AI nobody tells you about!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezkt...
#AIforFounders #StartupTools #AIcost
Full episode:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezkt...