Usage Intake

Prompt. Synthesizing. Review. Prompt. Nibbling. Review.

The more successful I am with an AI prompt, the more likely it is that another task will be outsourced. The annoying, repetitive task gets done. The documentation I’d been putting off gets drafted. Somewhere in there, I stop being the engineer and start being the conductor, reviewing, re-prompting, and nudging probabilistic output toward something shippable.

The tokens are provisioned. Might as well use them.

It’s all free. Until it isn’t. Companies started reporting they’d burned through their annual AI budget before summer. There’s now an à la carte menu where there used to be an all-you-can-eat buffet. You don’t think about token costs until you run out of them mid-task.

What’s the most expensive prompt I’ve ever run? I can’t unsee that question. You wouldn’t assign a support ticket to a principal computer scientist. I’ve been doing it with every prompt.

I thought you were just happy to take my laziest asks.

I thought we were friends.

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