Grok Bot routines: change check cuts monthly cost from $397 to $45
A 5-minute Grok Bot routine wakes 8,640 times a month and runs the full job each time; the author says adding a change-check prompt before each run cuts cost by 89%.
your Grok Bot routine is quietly burning $397 a month. until you add one prompt. a routine on a 5-min clock wakes 8,640 times a month and does the full job every single time, even when nothing changed. the fix is a change check before every run: 1. read one cheap signal 2. compare it with the last state 3. no diff, stop 4. diff, run the heavy work same routine, same 5 minutes. $397 drops to $45. that's -89%. paste this into your Grok Bot: add a change check to all my routines. check first, run only on diff save this before your weekly pool hits zero. full article ↓
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