I Was Shocked by How Cheap LLMs Can Be — A Bootcamp Grad's Guide

I Was Shocked by How Cheap LLMs Can Be — A Bootcamp Grad's Guide Three months ago I graduated from a full-stack bootcamp. I was riding the high of building my first CRUD app when my mentor dropped a question that changed everything: "So, how much do you think it costs to call an LLM API?" I threw out a number. Fifty bucks? A hundred? Maybe a few hundred a month for a side project? I had no idea I was about to learn the truth would blow my mind. The real answer, the one I wish someone had tol...