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Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by j45 on Friday April 03, 2026 @09:16PM (#47634538)
Efficient token use will be the new code/vim golf.

Whether it's human token use, or future OpenClaws

Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by xtracto on Friday April 03, 2026 @09:37PM (#47634697)
I've mention before that we should have a look at Telegraph/telegram speak. There was a HUGE industry in word efficiency at that time. There are hundreds of books.

I even think an LLM trained to communicate using telegram style might even be faster and way cheaper.

Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by mannicken on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:17PM (#47634981)
> I've mention before that we should have a look at Telegraph/telegram speak.

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Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by xtracto on Saturday April 04, 2026 @03:16PM (#47642307)
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Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by quietsegfault on Friday April 03, 2026 @11:00PM (#47635230)
Why use many word when few do trick?
Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by djfergus on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:21AM (#47635705)
Reminds me of the terminus agent/harness on the terminal-bench coding benchmark - they just send send keystrokes to a tmux session. They score pretty well.

https://www.tbench.ai/news/terminus

Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by reilly3000 on Friday April 03, 2026 @09:20PM (#47634574)
It’s the new cloud cost vector, where cutting 2K from context on a busy service saves $xxxxx.

Terse.

Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by xvector on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:03PM (#47634884)
No org doing real work cares about token use costs.

This mainly just affects hobbyists.

Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by KeplerBoy on Saturday April 04, 2026 @02:12AM (#47636334)
Token use cost can easily get as large as dev salaries. Even real businesses care about that.
Re:Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscri... by KellyCriterion on Saturday April 04, 2026 @04:04AM (#47636951)
Like "Token Usage Consulting" companies popping up now? :-D