Posts tagged "AI coding cost"

Why Your $20/Month Claude Pro Plan Runs Out in 3 Prompts (And What's Actually Eating Your Tokens)

Your Claude Pro subscription burns through its 5-hour session limit in minutes. Here's the technical reason: your AI agent wastes 70% of your tokens reading files instead of answering your question.

I Tracked 100 Million Tokens of Claude Code Usage. 99.4% Were Wasted on Reading.

A developer tracked every token Claude Code consumed for a month. The result: 99.4% were input tokens. For every 1 token written, 166 were consumed reading. Here's what that means for your bill.