How I Stopped Burning Cash on Token Limits — A CTO's Field Notes (opens in new tab)

How I Stopped Burning Cash on Token Limits — A CTO's Field Notes Three months ago, I was staring at our monthly AI bill wondering where it all went wrong. We'd built what I thought was a pretty elegant LLM pipeline. Production-ready, observability wired up, the whole nine yards. Then the invoices started arriving, and I realized I had built a money furnace. Our token consumption was spiking 3x week over week, the 429s were everywhere, and our latency had become a meme inside the company. This...