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What Your Tech Person Is Actually Building

There is no magic in the wiring. Your tech person sends a block of text and gets a block of text back, and pays by the word in both directions. Knowing that is enough to follow the rest of this module.One call: the system prompt that never changes, the turns that do, and the usage numbers that come back with the answer. The service keeps no memory, so history is your job.Request anatomy and statelessness: system vs messages, history re-send, the usage block as the only honest cost signal, and which failures retry.

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does the AI remember our last conversation?does the AI remember our last conversation?is the API stateful?
No. Nothing carries over on its own. If the answer needs to know what was said earlier, your tech person has to send that earlier text again, every single time, and it is charged again every single time. This is why a long chat gets slowly more expensive rather than staying flat.No. Nothing carries over on its own. If the answer needs to know what was said earlier, your tech person has to send that earlier text again, every single time, and it is charged again every single time. This is why a long chat gets slowly more expensive rather than staying flat.No. Each call is independent; there is no server-side thread. Continuity is the client re-sending the full turn list, so input cost grows with conversation length even when the new question is one line. That growth is the argument for caching the stable prefix and for starting a fresh thread when the old one stops being relevant.
how do we know what it cost?how do we know what it cost?where is the cost signal?
The answer comes back with a count of what went in and what came out. Do not guess from the length of the text on screen. Read the count, because it includes things you cannot see, like the standing instruction and the list of tools you left switched on.The answer comes back with a count of what went in and what came out. Do not guess from the length of the text on screen. Read the count, because it includes things you cannot see, like the standing instruction and the list of tools you left switched on.Every response carries a usage block: input tokens, output tokens, and cache read and write counts where caching is on. That block is the only honest signal, because it includes the system prompt, tool definitions and re-sent history that are invisible in the rendered answer. Log it per call from day one; it is what makes a cost question answerable later.

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