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EngineeringSeptember 5, 2026

Batch your AI calls, halve the bill.

A for loop calling the model once per ticket pays full price and competes with live traffic for the same rate limit. The Batch API processes up to 100,000 requests at once, at half the cost — for exactly the work that was never going to need an answer in three seconds.

Manpreet Singh
Intermediate7 min read
EngineeringSeptember 1, 2026

Claude Skills: stop re-teaching Claude your process every time.

Every new chat starts from zero — you paste in the same style guide, the same checklist, the same 'not like that' before Claude gets it right. Agent Skills let you write that knowledge down once, as a folder Claude opens only when the task actually needs it.

Manpreet Singh
Intermediate7 min read