Cost-savings Memes

When you're paying $0.002 per 1K tokens and suddenly realize verbose prompts are just burning money. Why write "Please provide a comprehensive analysis" when "analyze" does the job? The LLM API bills you by the token, so every "please," "kindly," and "I would appreciate if you could" is literally costing you cash. Developers speedrunning the evolution of language backwards—from Shakespeare to caveman—just to shave off a few cents. Your prompts went from polite corporate emails to telegram-style efficiency real fast. "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick" isn't just a meme anymore, it's a cost optimization strategy.