alt Hacker NewsWe have been working in this space for the past year. Based on our experience, I no longer trust any claims unless they are backed by benchmark results (yes, benchmarks are painful to run reliably and expensive).
It is possible to reduce token usage. It’s just much harder than the basic approach.
One quick win is to just avoid wasteful tokens, for example run all the QA tools like the unit tests in --quiet mode, which only prints warnings/failures.