http://programmer.ie/tags/inference-pricing/ Recent content in Inference Pricing on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:06 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/06-chapter/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:06 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/06-chapter/ <p><em>Part 1 — Where You Stand</em></p> <h2 id="the-invoice-nobody-runs-at-prototype-time">The invoice nobody runs at prototype time</h2> <p>The paragraph review from Chapter 1 costs about 1,200 tokens in and 400 out. At prototype scale that is a rounding error, and it is why nobody computes the next four numbers.</p> <p>A manuscript has 3,000 paragraphs. That is one full pass.</p> <p>The review is not run once. Every edit invalidates the review of the paragraph it touched, and a careful author edits most paragraphs four or five times.</p>