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title: Day 7 of Green, Efficient AI is live — Shape the Answer Before You…
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date: 2026-05-31
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summary: Day 7 of Green, Efficient AI is live — Shape the Answer Before You Ask. Most teams optimise what goes into an AI call. Few optimise what comes back. Output tokens cost roughly three to five times what input tokens cost, across every major provider. The return…
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Day 7 of Green, Efficient AI is live — Shape the Answer Before You Ask.

Most teams optimise what goes into an AI call. Few optimise what comes back.

Output tokens cost roughly three to five times what input tokens cost, across every major provider. The return trip of the call is where the meter runs fastest — and where the least design effort has been spent.

You decide what the model returns before you call it, or you pay to fix what it returns after.

How to stop paying twice for the same answer, in today's issue.

Green Software Foundation #greenai #efficentai