@renatov.eth
My Claude AI bot read 63x more than it spoke last month.
24.5M tokens in. 391k out. The bill was about $80, and the ratio is the entire lesson.
I run an AI character that lives in a 3100 tg chat 24/7.
After the June bill I did full cost surgery and wrote up every cut, with numbers:
✅ split the brain:
Haiku for plumbing, Sonnet for personality only
✅ halve every context block
(history 10 to 5, analytics 6000 to 4000 chars). Nobody noticed
✅ make replies roll dice on length:
55% one-liners. The character got MORE alive, not less
✅ video sight for pennies:
3 ffmpeg frames to the cheapest vision tier
✅ the hat-trick bug:
two API endpoints describing one match disagree at the worst moment
Full breakdown with the exact numbers and the bugs in the article below. 👇
https://x.com/Rencrypta/status/2072742579741855807?s=20
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