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title: "Discussion on \"7 prompt engineering tricks that pulled my AI comic costs from $0.20 to $0.038/panel\" | Hashnode"
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# [7 prompt engineering tricks that pulled my AI comic costs from $0.20 to $0.038/panel](https://qcrao.hashnode.dev/7-prompt-engineering-tricks-that-pulled-my-ai-comic-costs-from-0-20-to-0-038-panel?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Six months ago, generating a single 4-panel comic on Comicory cost me ~$0.80 in GPU time and produced something that looked AI-generated in the worst way — washed-out colors, fingers melting, the same

May 10 · 5 min read · qcrao.hashnode.dev  
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