How I Slashed Our LLM API Token Costs by 90% — From 1M to 100K Daily

Last week, finance dropped a screenshot into the group chat: this month’s LLM API bill was ¥5,368, up 4x month-over-month. “Do you tech people not feel anything if you don’t spend money?” That moment I suddenly understood every algorithm team that’s ever had their budget slashed. We run an intellige