I set up Claude Code the way Spotify does to save tokens, and it cost me more
One thing I'm always aware of when handling agentic tasks is my token burn. Simple tasks like generating test files from a template or skimming through a folder of PDF documents to answer a question are almost insulting to the power of a frontier model. That's less of a concern with subscription pricing, but with API billing, token costs add up. Unnecessarily, when a cheaper model (or even a local one) could handle the task.
One thing I’m always aware of when handling agentic tasks is my token burn. Simple tasks like generating test files from a template or skimming through a folder of PDF documents to answer a question are almost insulting to the power of a frontier model. That’s less of a concern with subscription pricing, but with API billing, token costs add up. Unnecessarily, when a cheaper model (or even a local one) could handle the task.
Edward Lee
New Zealand
New Zealand
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