After doing these courses, I feel confident creating professional visualizations and dashboards
Shoebur RahmanProcurement Specialist, Giz Bangladesh
Course Description
Understand what drives the cost of every AI conversation, and build simple habits that get more out of your plan without giving up quality. No technical background required.
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Curriculum
Course outline
1
Understanding AI Costs
Tokens, Billing, and Why Costs Add Up Fast
You will learn how AI usage is metered and why conversation costs snowball, enabling you to recognize when a session is becoming expensive and how to stretch your usage budget.
The Different Types of Context
You will recognize what "context" actually is — the live conversation, attachments and files, standing instructions and memory, and connected tools — all of which sit in the AI's context window and get re-read every turn.
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How to Spend Fewer Tokens
Manage Your Context Window
You will learn how to keep your active chat threads lean and focused, allowing you to get high-quality answers without wasting your token allowance on old, unrelated conversation history.
Use Tools Efficiently
You will learn how to manage connected and built-in AI tools efficiently, enabling you to leverage advanced capabilities like deep research, browsing agents, and polished formatting without hitting usage limits.
Match the Model to the Task
You will learn how to match model size and reasoning effort to the complexity of your task, enabling you to avoid overpaying for simple requests while ensuring hard tasks get the computing power they need.
Make Every Turn Count
You will learn to write highly efficient prompts and manage active responses, helping you get the exact answer you need in fewer turns and avoid costly back-and-forth arguments.
Bring In Only What You Need
You will learn how to clean and manage the files and web content you introduce to your chats, ensuring you don't pay to re-read hidden clutter and duplicate uploads.
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Token Cost Management for Everyone
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