Fix Your Prompt Structure Before You Touch Your Infrastructure

Fix Your Prompt Structure Before You Touch Your Infrastructure Most engineering teams treat LLM inference costs as an infrastructure problem. They evaluate model quantization, shop for cheaper GPU rentals, debate whether to move from GPT-4o to Claude Sonnet, and benchmark open-source alternatives. I have watched teams spend weeks on this and save fifteen percent. The same teams were running their system prompts with a timestamp in the first line and paying full token price on every single reques