You’re Overpaying Every Day — You Just Can’t See It

Think about the last time you asked an AI to clean up your meeting notes.

You probably opened a new chat, pasted in the transcript — maybe 1,500 words — then pasted your usual notes template on top of that, then said something like “format this, bold the action items.”

It worked. Useful, even.

But here’s what actually happened: the model just read ~3,000 words to produce ~300 words of output.