Working Notes on Agent Systems/Brad Zhang

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Send this paragraph to your CC, you can save half the cost💰 "Study my claude code usage habits and the places that consume the most tokens.

Send this paragraph to your CC, you can save half the cost💰 "Study my claude code usage habits and the places that consume the most tokens. If I want to reduce the usage cost b...

March 23, 2026 · 1 min read

Send this paragraph to your CC, you can save half the cost💰 "Study my claude code usage habits and the places that consume the most tokens.
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Send this paragraph to your CC, you can save half the cost💰 "Study my claude code usage habits and the places that consume the most tokens.

If I want to reduce the usage cost by half and maintain the effect, what are the specific suggestions and measures, which can be analyzed and investigated from multiple angles.

This is very important to me." I will post the complete suggestions CC gave me when I have time today.

I really want to be proud🦵.

There are too many things that can be improved.

Try the above paragraph and you will thank me.

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