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Practical exercise

Track every rupee of AI use for one week

AI feels free until you read the fine print. Every chatbot has a daily limit, every image generation eats credits, every API call costs cents that add up to dollars in dollars that add up to thousands of rupees. Today you will start a one week ledger so you know exactly what your AI habit costs.

30 min·practitioner
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Now try it

Track every rupee of AI use for one week

Stretch

On a laptop, open the API pricing pages of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Calculate what 100 messages of your typical length would cost in PKR through each provider. Note which model gives best value for Urdu output.

Goes into your portfolio

A photographed seven day handwritten AI cost ledger with totals in rupees and a 50 word reflection on whether the spend matched the value.