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LLM tokens are expensive. There, we said it. Every product team building with AI hits the same wall eventually - what starts as a modest API bill quietly becomes a line item that raises eyebrows in budget reviews. So how do you keep building without bleeding money on inference costs? In our latest piece from the Thrives Lab, we break down practical, battle-tested strategies for reducing your LLM token spend - without sacrificing quality or capability. From prompt compression and caching to model routing and smarter context management, there's more leverage here than most teams realize. If you're running AI in production and watching your costs climb, this one's worth your time. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dXQMYKUr #LLM #AI #AIEngineering #TokenCosts #ProductDevelopment #Thrives #GenerativeAI #AIInfrastructure