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Measured
Costs, times and results taken from real runs, with the records to check them. What we did not measure is said.
What it really costs to generate images and video: my bills, measured
A Mac, a hosted API and a rented H100, on the same pictures and clips. The seconds, the dollars, the mistakes that cost money, and a small calculation for when renting a GPU pays off.
The anatomy of an AI prompt: what each added line really changes
A six-word prompt, then three layers of detail, on my Mac with the same seed. What gets better, what gets worse, what a negative prompt can do, and what I didn't prove.