I discovered I was designing my AI tools backwards. Here’s an example. This was my newsletter processing chain : reading emails, calling a newsletter processor, extracting companies, & then adding them to the CRM. This involved four different steps, costing $3.69 for every thousand newsletters processed. Before: Newsletter Processing Chain # Step 1: Find newsletters (separate tool)ruby read_email.rb --from "newsletter@techcrunch.com" --limit 5# Output: 340 tokens of detailed email data# Ste...
