A friendly robot looking at a budget dashboard, the needle is in the normal pace zone, and token coins flow into a piggy bank

I installed a money-saving dashboard for my AI

📖 Saving Tokens series (four parts): Part 1: Why your AI gets dumber the more you chat · Part 2: Don’t boot up a supercomputer if an abacus will do · Part 3: Setting up a clean desk for your AI · Part 4 (this post, the finale) We’ve arrived at the final post of the series. Over the first three parts, we went from “why your AI gets dumber the more you chat” all the way to “when not to use AI” and “how to clean up its desk.” This post is about the moment you actually spend the money: how to make every penny count. ...

June 29, 2026 · 8 min · 1532 words · 陳柏威 Po-Wei Chen
A taxi meter carrying a sinking chat bubble crushed by token coins, with a friendly robot struggling to drag it

Why Does Your AI Get Slower and Dumber the Longer You Chat?

📖 Token Saving Series (4 parts in total): Part 1 (this post) · Part 2: If an Abacus Works, Don’t Boot Up a Supercomputer · Part 3: Organizing a Clean Desk for AI · Part 4: I Installed a Budget Dashboard for AI You’ve definitely had this experience: you chat with ChatGPT or Claude for an afternoon, and the longer it goes, the more sluggish it gets. It replies slower, suddenly “forgets” what you said earlier, or even starts talking in circles. ...

June 29, 2026 · 6 min · 1096 words · 陳柏威 Po-Wei Chen