Comment by cedws
21 hours ago
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.
Simply assert that :
you are a professional (insert concise occupation).
Be terse.
Skip the summary.
Give me the nitty-gritty details.
You can send all that using your AI client settings.