Hacker News: k08200https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=k08200Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:27:24 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by k08200 in "Why did one day of AI cost more than a month of servers?"]]>A big part of the cost explosion is using the frontier model for tasks that don't need to be done. I tried using the gpt-4o and much cheaper models, and the cheaper ones were more accurate in my three — paying for the reasoning depth that I don't use. The other half is asking the model to do what deterministic rules should be. Calls that don't are the cheapest. Starting with profiling what calls the larger model really needs.

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:35:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48719817k08200https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48719817https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48719817<![CDATA[Show HN: Klorn–I built an email firewall because every AI inbox made mine louder]]>Article URL: https://github.com/k08200/klorn

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