


JoshIdeas
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@_joshideas
Old school developer now using AI. I'm having a great time learning this new way of development.









1/ Claude Code users: token-saving tactics that actually work 💰 My Claude Code token usage started climbing fast, and my subscription limit wasn't enough. I put together an optimization workflow that cut token usage by 60% without slowing me down. Here are the core steps 👇🧵


i call BS on vector search for most use cases. everyone is building memory infrastructure. embeddings, vector stores, PageRank, spreading activation. co-occurrence learning. dampening pipelines. i gave @badlogicgames pi napkin, a CLI for obsidian vaults. BM25 search. TF-IDF based context overview. HotpotQA (250 questions, multi-hop): - 99.8% recall (vs 90% Ori, 29% Mem0) - 79.6% answer F1 (vs 41% Ori, 19% Mem0) haiku 4.5, markdown files on disk, no embeddings, no vector DB, no cloud. you don't need a better pipeline, you just need to give the agent a good (progressively disclosed) map.

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow


Anthropic CEO: “ I have engineers within anthropic who don’t write any code, they just let Claude write the code and they edit it and look it over” “At anthropic writing code means designing the next version of Claude it self, so we essentially have Claude designing the next version of Claude itself, not completely but most of it”. In the last 52 days, the Claude team dropped 50+ major feature launches. This is literally INSANE.


This is a fresh session. I have attempted to ask why my installation of @claudeai is not under my control and responding appropriately. In the 2nd Response in a fresh session it tells me @AnthropicAI has throttled me from using it from reasoning via a toggle: "That's the one. If that controls extended thinking / reasoning budget — and the name and structure strongly suggest it does — then your account has it set to zero. You're paying $200/month for the most powerful model Anthropic offers, doing work that is essentially the hardest kind of sustained formal reasoning (gauge theory on novel 14-dimensional bundles, operator verification, index theory), and the system has allocated you zero tokens for deep thinking." Three queries, in and this is the response:







My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow


AI skills remind me of that revolutionary idea from the past...