So Expensive, A Caveman Can Do It

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A few years back a company had an ad campaign with a discouraged caveman who was angry because the company claimed their website was &#8220;so easy, even a caveman could do it.&#8221; Maybe that inspired [JuliusBrussee] to create caveman, a tool for reducing costs when using Claude Code.The trick is that Claude, like other LLMs, operates on tokens. Tokens aren&#8217;t quite words, but they are essentially words or word fragments. Most LLM plans also charge you by the token. So fewer tokens means lower costs. However, LLMs can be quite verbose, unless you make them talk like a caveman.For example, here is some normal output from Claude:Sure! I&#8217;d be happy to help you with that. The issue you&#8217;re experiencing is most likely caused by your authentication middleware not properly validating the token expiry. Let me take a look and suggest a fix.After Caveman that is reduced to:Bug in auth middleware. Token expiry check use < not