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Cost-control patterns for LLM-heavy apps

LLM calls are metered per token, so in an LLM-heavy app, cost is an engineering dimension you design for — not a bill you discover. A deep-dive on the patterns that keep it under control: model tiering, caching, token discipline, budgets, and the measurement that has to come before any of it.

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