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Excessive token usage in Claude Code

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Re: Excessive token usage in Claude Code

#4

Post by sparin9 »

The recent VS Code extension update has noticeably degraded the experience.

The agent now becomes unresponsive at times and needs a reload, which really breaks flow. More frustratingly, the context limit seems to fill up much faster on the same project that was working fine just days ago. Nothing major changed on my side, so this feels like a backend or token allocation shift.

Re: Excessive token usage in Claude Code

#6

Post by stingraycharles »

Vaslo wrote: post #3
selridge wrote: post #2

This is just a github issue with a vague complaint.

A lot of comments and evidence - where there’s smoke…

It’s silly, it’s a 6 weeks old issue, and there aren’t even any actual facts in there, just screenshots.

I’ll believe it when I see actual facts, e.g. actual token counts (which is relatively easy to capture if you use mitmproxy or something like that).

For all I know this guy has a 5000 line CLAUDE.md

Re: Excessive token usage in Claude Code

#7

Post by SoftTalker »

stingraycharles wrote: post #6
Vaslo wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of comments and evidence - where there’s smoke…

It’s silly, it’s a 6 weeks old issue, and there aren’t even any actual facts in there, just screenshots. I’ll believe it when I see actual facts, e.g. actual token counts (which is relatively easy to capture if you use mitmproxy or something like that). For all I know this guy has a 5000 line CLAUDE.md

I would have submitted a better report but I ran out of tokens.

Re: Excessive token usage in Claude Code

#8

Post by hinkley »

stingraycharles wrote: post #6
Vaslo wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of comments and evidence - where there’s smoke…

It’s silly, it’s a 6 weeks old issue, and there aren’t even any actual facts in there, just screenshots. I’ll believe it when I see actual facts, e.g. actual token counts (which is relatively easy to capture if you use mitmproxy or something like that). For all I know this guy has a 5000 line CLAUDE.md

Wow. Six weeks is old news and non-issues now?

I should update my notes.

Re: Excessive token usage in Claude Code

#9

Post by thurn »

There's a real hobbyist vs professional distinction with Claude Code. For professionals, including when I use it at work, we're generally super happy to have Claude spawn as many subagents as possible and burn more tokens to get a better result. Hobbyist users on a $20/month plan, though, generally want more conservative behavior.

It's hard for Anthropic to cater to both sets of users with one model.

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