The token report for one pipeline run landed in front of me and the first number I saw was 7,300,000. One topic. Seven pieces of content. Seven point three million tokens. That is the kind of number you see right before someone suggests shutting the project down. The bill for that run, at API list prices: $8.12. The distance between the panic and the price is prompt caching . I have spent months running a content pipeline on Claude, and the numbers from inside that pipeline taught me more...