Being efficient with tokens doesn’t mean using fewer of them overall. It means making sure the ones you do use go towards the thing you actually asked for.
So let’s look at what decides the price of a token, then what decides how many of them a session sends, and along the way, what that means for how you run a session.
Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions | Claude by Anthropic
Good tips for Frugal AI usage. Written for developers. But easy to understand the principles and apply them to a variety of AI work.