alt Hacker News>LLMs (Claude Code in particular) will explicitly create token intensive steps, plans and responses - "just to be sure" - "need to check" - "verify no leftovers", will do git diff even tho not asked for, create python scripts for simple tasks, etc. Absolutely no cache (except the memory which is meh) nor indexing whatsoever.
Most of these things can be avoided with a customized CLAUDE.md.
Not in my projects it seems. Perhaps you can share your best practices? Moreover, avoiding these should be the default behaviour. Currently the default is to drain your pockets.
P.S CLAUDE.md is sometimes useful but, it's a yet another token drain. Especially that it can grow exponentially.