Trimming your prompt barely moves your LLM bill. Output tokens cost about 5x input tokens (Sonnet 5.5: $2 in, $10 out per million). Cutting 200 tokens saves 3.3% on the prompt side, 16.7% on the output side.
Which side of your API bill is bigger: input or output?
AWS finally brought a spend cap. Set a hard monthly limit and the project pauses there, so a runaway bill stops at the number you chose.
A budget alert only tells you. A cap stops it. Do you have a cap on your AWS projects, or only alerts?
Google paused new product vulnerability reports to its open source bug bounty on October 1, saying the vast majority of the automated submissions weren't valid. Curl closed its own bounty in January over AI slop.
If the payout is what attracts the slop, how do you pay for real
A budget alert tells you the bill is climbing. A hard spend cap stops it: AWS's new project spend limit pauses the project at the monthly limit.
If you could pick one default for a new AWS account, would you pick the alert or the cap, and why?
