Spend Your Tokens Where They Matter: Development with a Token Budget

You want to use AI to do all the things. Maybe you did. You were feeling like a rockstar. Then you were told you have a $300 monthly limit. Now what?

When your token budget is fixed, you have to be more judicious about where you spend it. Some fancy techniques simply will not fit. This talk explores practical ways to structure AI assisted development, choose where model effort is worthwhile, and make room for research, implementation, and review within a real budget. A custom workflow based on Dexter Horthy’s “Everything We Got Wrong About Research Plan Implement” provides a running example.