12 Engineering Habits That Cut LLM Token Spend at Production Scale

Your LLM Bill Isn't One Big Leak. It's Twelve Small Ones. A team shipped a great AI feature in their product. The cost had quietly tripled in six weeks — same model, same product, no obvious explanation. That is not a model problem. That is a habits problem. Token prices are falling. Enterprise AI bills are climbing. That apparent contradiction resolves instantly when you look at the real culprit: volume grows faster than price drops. Google now processes over a quadrillion tokens...