ai tips

💸 Cost saving

Using ai models with APIs can be expensive and cost you > 300€/month, if you are not careful.

Switch models while coding.
Use smaller prompts.
Cancel subscriptions.
Consolidate to on LLM router service.
- Requesty - LLM Development Platform
- OpenRouter
Monitoring Claude Code with Datadog

Guiding the Coding Assistant towards satisfactory outcomes is therefore of ever-growing importance in our daily work.

3 critical measures that are required to work successfully in an AI-assisted coding setup:

Well-structured Requirements: defines the destination.
- Ex: https://github.com/dx-tooling/platform-problem-monitoring-core/blob/main/docs/REQUIREMENTS.md
Tool-based Guard Rails: ensure we take the most direct route towards the destination.
File-based Keyframing: create near-empty stub files, and the LLM can take over.