Welcome To The Real World

Welcome To The Real World
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Nothing says "welcome back" quite like a $150k monthly API bill from your friendly neighborhood LLM provider. You thought you were building the next big AI feature? Nope, you just accidentally funded OpenAI's next yacht.

The best part? Management approved the POC with 100 users, and now you're serving 100,000. Turns out streaming consciousness to every user request gets expensive real fast. Who knew that letting GPT-4 write your product descriptions would cost more than your entire engineering team's salary?

Time to implement that token caching strategy you've been putting off and maybe, just maybe, consider if users really need AI to tell them their password is incorrect.

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