I just burned $20++ on a single Cursor prompt. Nearly 2 million tokens for what should have been a simple drag-and-drop feature. That's more than an hours salary of a dev in india. Let that sink in. This got me thinking about something we're not discussing enough: the real cost of AI coding tools for developers in India. Here's the math. Most devs here around $20/hour. But if you're constantly prompting AI to fix bugs and build features, you could easily spend $10-20 of that on tokens. I've seen developers get stuck in what I call the AI death spiral - endlessly re-prompting when they hit a wall, literally burning through half their hourly wage or more. The problem isn't just money. It's that many of us don't know how to give AI the context it needs when things get complicated. We haven't learned to break down problems or recognize when to stop prompting and figure it out ourselves.