Every time I open Reddit, my feed has at least 2-3 posts crying about some version of -
- Spent the weekly within a day or 2
- “Its draining tokens”
- They reduced the quota, I can barely get anything Here’s some touch the grass facts - Fable is a super expensive model with a very high token price - if you are using Fable consistently, it is going to eat through your quota - that’s just math - 1k fable tokens is equal to 2k Opus tokens! If you continue building an app, your codebase is going to grow and over time, the same workflow is going to use a lot more tokens than it did when the codebase was lean and had few tests/ code/ modules to worry about. What that means practically is going to get less shit done in week 4 on the same codebase as you could have done in week 1. Every thing you do has a trace and log. Rather than ranting about it, shove the session usage json’s in one of the bazillions “I made this groundbreaking claude visualizer” systems people keep putting on here to get empirical evidence around your token usage. I have been building with Claude since Claude code became a thing - and no - the usage is consistent if you are smart about it and understand how the system sips tokens. Here are some things I do and I have no idea if it is going to fix your hallucinations, but give it a try if you think it will help
- Use skills for any repeatable task - like literally anything that you think is going to be repeated, have a skill for it so you dont waste tokens figuring out how to do the same thing again and again
- Have your claude.md as a thin router to the actual areas you are going to be working on. When starting a session, tell that you are going to be focusing on so and so area.
- Fresh sessions, every time the session size grows, your input token size is growing. Keep the sessions small.
- Push it to use agents! Like use an agent to review code, or do a specific research, or fix a bug - agents cost less as they are focused on doing specific tasks and are bootstrapped with the required knowledge to do that task.
- Make your codebase agent ready - this means having design/ architecture/ gotchas/ decision. MDs for literally every domain in your code. It helps tremendously! I keep a meticulous inventory of tokens I spend each week - and trust me - it has remained consistent for months! Please for the love of god, spare my feed!!! submitted by /u/termmonkey
Originally posted by u/termmonkey on r/ClaudeCode
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