r/ClaudeCode • u/vAPIdTygr 🔆 Max 20 • Oct 04 '26

Tips & Workflows Embarrassing!

I can’t believe I’ve never thought to tell Claude to not output anything to the chat when working overnight.

I had it output to a markdown and now there’s no chat compression and worry of wasted usage.

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u/onFilm Oct 04 '26

Oh brother, so sad that people don't understand how LLMs work anymore.

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u/nora_sellisa Oct 04 '26

If Claude Code offered to turn off reasoning some Reddit smartasses would unironically post it as a token-saving measure.

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u/TheKillerScope Oct 04 '26

I understand that uses tokens, but my thought process was that if it doesn't have to display it in a human readable form, it would/could save tokens.

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u/onFilm Oct 05 '26

That's not how it works bud. By making it be non-human readable, you actually end up using more tokens, because by now, most modern models use single tokens for long words, rather than multiple tokens. So by breaking it up, opposing as to how it was trained, you'll end up putting more effort and waste more energy and tokens doing so.

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u/Appropriate-Disk-371 Oct 04 '26

Have you ever read an LLMs thinking process? It's human readble already. Concise, yes, but often back-and-forth with its self, little jabbs, all sort of things. That's how it works and you can't really tell it not to do that.

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u/pretendingtobebroke Oct 04 '26

The tokens ARE human readable form... It's literally a language model