War Story: We Spent $50k on GPT-5 API Calls Before Optimizing Our Prompts
7h ago · 18 min read · At 3:14 AM on a Tuesday in October 2024, I got a Slack ping from our CFO that made my stomach drop: our GPT-5 API spend for the month had hit $47,892, and we still had 12 days left in the billing cycle. We’d blown past our $10k/month AI budget by 380...
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