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Ask HN: What works for cutting AI token costs?

5•leoncos•7h ago
My LLM token bill is getting painful.

Besides switching to cheaper models, what have you personally used to reduce cost in real applications?

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mhrmsn•6h ago
Haven't benchmarked it, but for agentic coding e.g. Claude Code I found this useful:

https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk

bohdanstefaniuk•2h ago
When I work with AI to build something I like to summarize every conversation into separate folder and basically keep a journal for AI. This is how it looks like:

"journal" folder:

- 2026-05-12 Add comments support for the cells.md

- 2026-06-15 Rework onboarding screen.md

Each document contains show description of the problem and explanation how did we solve it. Then If I need to go back in time and improve one of the features I can use one or multiple of those files as a reference so we don't need to "rescan" entire code base and re-analyze it. And the most important - I'm not loosing some decisions we made which from the code alone can be considered bugs but they are features actually

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