alt Hacker NewsWorth mentioning as I think at least a few of the commenters are mixing them up: auto mode is different from --dangerously-skip-permissions / YOLO mode. In auto mode, there's a classifier that runs before any command is executed and theoretically blocks any dangerous commands from running. I've found it to be quite annoying and overly zealous, but probably pretty effective.
Claude seems to waste a lot of tokens internally bickering with itself. As much as organizations are optimizing spend, Claude's product guidance seems to be doing everything to fight against that headwind. When operating in a capped cost environment, engineers will simply get less use out of it.