· 3 days ago· Dev.to
Structured prompts reduce token waste by 35-40%—key implications unveiled.
One structured prompt format. Two identical reasoning tasks. Same model. Unstructured: 1,240 tokens. Structured (with explicit schema): 847 tokens. 32% reduction. That's real, repeatable, shows up in cost logs. But it's also the easy part. The harder part is knowing whether those saved tokens actual
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