ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone
Prompting AI for Analytics: The Missing Optimization Layer Between Your Question and the Model
The answer was right. The question cost four times what it needed to. Every analytics team using AI models runs into the same quiet cost: wasted tokens from messy prompts. An analyst types a vague question, the model gives back a long, hedge-y answer, the analyst rewrites the question, asks again, and the loop repeats. Multiply that across hundreds of analysts asking questions every day, and it's not just money burned on tokens — it's time lost and answers that don't line up with each other.
DZoneRead original