When you run your own business, there is no shortage of things to work on.
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1. Produce
2. Build Leverage
3. Learn (to do 1 & 2 better)
4. Deliver
5. Admin
Andrej Karpathy has been saying it for years:
the bottleneck in AI coding isn't the model.
it's the context.
Most developers are burning 5-10x more tokens than they need to.
Not because they code more.
Because their agents are horribly inefficient.
Here are 10 things smart AI engineers stopped wasting money on:
1. Loading half the repo for a 30-line fix
Your agent doesn't need 50 files.
Yet auto-context happily dumps them in anyway.
80,000 tokens go in.
3,000 were actually useful.
grep first. fetch second.
2. Using Opus for everything
Linting. Formatting. Renaming. Boilerplate.
$0.60 of intelligence for a $0.02 problem.
Premium models should be escalations, not defaults.
3. Letting agents resend the same context every loop
Agent calls tool → gets result → retries → sends the entire world again.
Repeat 5 times.
Suddenly a cheap task becomes expensive.
Fix your tool loops and you can cut 30-50% of the bill without changing a single prompt.
4. Defaulting every coding task to Sonnet
Most coding tasks don't need frontier-model intelligence.
A cheaper model like Kimi can handle the boring 80-90%.
Save Sonnet/Opus for the tasks where the extra reasoning actually matters.
routing > loyalty.
5. Destroying your own prompt cache
If 90% of your system prompt, repo instructions and tools stay identical...
you shouldn't be paying full price for them every turn.
Stable prefixes should be cached.
Otherwise you're repeatedly buying the same tokens.
6. Adding files "just in case"
This is probably the biggest silent killer.
README? include it.
Config? include it.
Related directory? include it.
Maybe relevant file? include it.
Now your 3,000-token problem has an 80,000-token prompt.
More context ≠ more intelligence.
Sometimes it makes the agent worse.
7. Teaching your agent the same thing every session
Your stack.
Commands.
Architecture.
Conventions.
Deployment process.
Common mistakes.
If the agent has to rediscover these every run, you're paying tuition every session.
Write it once into SKILL.md / AGENTS.md / project instructions.
Pay once. Reuse forever.
8. Running a single-model setup
This might be the most expensive habit in AI coding.
You don't use your smartest engineer to rename variables.
Why use your smartest model?
Cheap model → routine work
Mid-tier → normal coding
Frontier → hard reasoning
That's how serious agent systems will be built.
9. Asking 10 tiny questions separately
Every new call can mean paying for the same prefix again.
Instead of:
question → answer
question → answer
question → answer
batch independent work when possible.
One context load.
Multiple outputs.
10. Paying for 3 AI coding subscriptions you barely use
Claude Pro.
ChatGPT Plus.
Cursor Pro.
Maybe another API bill on top.
Most developers have accumulated AI subscriptions faster than they accumulated actual workflows.
Audit usage.
Keep what earns its seat.
Kill the rest.
The developers who get absurd leverage from AI aren't necessarily better prompters.
They're building better systems:
→ context discipline
→ grep before fetch
→ aggressive prompt caching
→ SKILL.md / AGENTS.md
→ cheap models for cheap tasks
→ frontier models only when needed
→ batched work
→ tool-call profiling
→ automatic model routing
The biggest AI coding optimization in 2026 isn't:
"How do I write a better prompt?"
It's:
"What's the cheapest model + smallest context that can solve this correctly?"
That's the routing mindset.
And I think the gap is about to get ridiculous.
Two developers can ship the same amount of software.
One burns $4,000/month on AI.
The other burns $200/month.
Same output.
20x difference.
Not because one is a better programmer.
Because one learned how to route.
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➡️ 𝟭. /ACT — Assign a specific role
➡️ 𝟮. /TLDR — Summarize long content
➡️ 𝟯. /ELI5 — Explain it simply
➡️ 𝟰. /FORMAT AS — Control the output format
➡️ 𝟱. /BRIEFLY — Get a concise response
➡️ 𝟲. /STEP-BY-STEP — Break down a task
➡️ 𝟳. /AUDIENCE — Adapt for a specific audience
➡️ 𝟴. /CHECKLIST — Turn ideas into actionable tasks
➡️ 𝟵. /TONE — Change the writing style
➡️ 𝟭𝟬. /FIRST PRINCIPLES — Start from the fundamentals
➡️ 𝟭𝟭. /SWOT — Analyze strengths and weaknesses
➡️ 𝟭𝟮. /COMPARE — Compare multiple options
➡️ 𝟭𝟯. /EXEC SUMMARY — Create an executive summary
➡️ 𝟭𝟰. /JARGON — Use industry-specific language
➡️ 𝟭𝟱. /REWRITE AS — Rewrite in a specific style
➡️ 𝟭𝟲. /DEV MODE — Take a technical developer perspective
➡️ 𝟭𝟳. /MULTI-PERSPECTIVE — Explore different viewpoints
➡️ 𝟭𝟴. /NO AUTOPILOT — Avoid generic responses
➡️ 𝟭𝟵. /PM MODE — Think like a project manager
➡️ 𝟮𝟬. /SCHEMA — Build a structured framework
➡️ 𝟮𝟭. /CONTEXT STACK — Maintain layered context
➡️ 𝟮𝟮. /REFLECTIVE MODE — Review and improve the answer
➡️ 𝟮𝟯. /BEGIN WITH — Start with a specific phrase
➡️ 𝟮𝟰. /END WITH — Finish with a specific phrase
➡️ 𝟮𝟱. /DELIBERATE THINKING — Encourage deeper analysis
➡️ 𝟮𝟲. /EVAL-SELF — Critically evaluate the response
➡️ 𝟮𝟳. /ROLE: TASK: FORMAT: — Define exactly what you want
➡️ 𝟮𝟴. /PARALLEL LENSES — Analyze from multiple angles
➡️ 𝟮𝟵. /BIAS CHECK — Look for potential bias
⚡ The secret isn't always a better AI.
Sometimes, you just need better instructions.
🎯 Better prompts → Better outputs
🧠 Clearer context → Smarter results
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