9 things I changed to stop bleeding AI token money and attention as a solo Mac dev

I used to end most days with two bad surprises: 1) "Why is my AI bill this high?" 2) "How did I spend 2 hours on X/YouTube when I said I was shipping?" After a few painful weeks, I stopped treating these as separate problems. They were both leak problems. Here are 9 changes that actually worked for me. 1) I started tracking cost per session, not monthly totals Monthly numbers are too late. By then, the damage is done.