Many of us are thinking about how to size our #GenerativeAI projects and I would like to convince you to take care - this one is more subtle than some others. In this installment, I have both some significant figure metaphors from high school chemistry as well as an #AI Dungeons and Dragons toy we built using tools from #OpenAI and #Pinecone in a #RetrievalAugmentedGeneration (#RAG) architecture. The story is that a maximally quick and dirty approach is amazingly cheap, and then you can make superficially the same project infinitely expensive as you add more demands on quality control, #DataPrivacy, and #infrastructure.