Grok Bot routines every 5 minutes cost ~12x more
Running the same Grok Bot job every 5 minutes costs about 12x an hourly schedule; the author suggests per-job cadence and a 'say nothing if nothing matters' line.
your Grok Bot routine runs every 5 minutes. it costs you ~12x more than running it once an hour same bot. same job. 12x the bill that's 288 runs a day for a job you read twice the fix takes 30 seconds: → most jobs run once a day: morning brief, renewals, weekly numbers → hourly is for the inbox. nothing else → every routine gets one line: "if there's nothing important, say nothing" → one bot per job. small and boring beats big and clever do that and the bot you used to ignore becomes the one message you actually open the full 7-bot setup with every prompt below ↓
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