When I work with AI on large, tricky code bases I try to do a collaboration where it hands off things to me that may result in large number of tokens (excess tool calls, unprecise searches, verbose output, reading large files without a range specified, etc.).
This will help narrow down exactly which to still handle manually to best keep within token budgets.
Note: "yourusername" in install git clone instructions should be replaced.
I've been trying to get token usage down by instructing Claude to stop being so verbose (saying what it's going to do beforehand, saying what it just did, spitting out pointless file trees) but it ignores my instructions. It could be that the model is just hard to steer away from doing that... or Anthropic want it to waste tokens so you burn through your usage quickly.
Hahahah just fixed it, thank you so much!!!! Think of extending this to a prompt admin, Im sure there is a lot of trash that the system sends on every query, I think we can improve this.
When I work with AI on large, tricky code bases I try to do a collaboration where it hands off things to me that may result in large number of tokens (excess tool calls, unprecise searches, verbose output, reading large files without a range specified, etc.).
This will help narrow down exactly which to still handle manually to best keep within token budgets.
Note: "yourusername" in install git clone instructions should be replaced.