build1 distinct publisher
The rate card is not your bill: budget AI features from the workload, not the price list
A worked example on dev.to shows a prompt that grew from 1,500 to 5,000 tokens more than doubling a monthly bill, with no new users and no price change.
Publishers:dev.to
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives22
- Confidence45