Hey all, been working on my productivity app for 500 plus hours and I picked up quite a few ways to save token usage that I wanted to share Also I hate AI slop, so hopefully yall can appreciate this hand typed post. Some stats: 89% cache hit ratio, 0.083 cost per line of code Give AI a clear small thing to do at once, unless you’re using an orchestrator. It’s much easier to do debugging this way. It’s easier to start over than correcting AI. If AI made a mistake earlier and you still keep prompting it in the same session, it resends that mistake as context, which can work against you. Sometimes it’s easier to start in a new session. Use plan mode to save tokens, read the plan of what AI suggested and make sure it is actually what you want. Sometimes the AI can go in circles and burn through tokens. The best solution to this is to just interrupt it and queue next message. Or restart entirely with clearer prompt. Hopefully this helps, and if you’d like to support a fellow coder, do give my app a look!! submitted by /u/gordiony
Originally posted by u/gordiony on r/ClaudeCode