Stop burning your best model's tokens on grep
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I kept slamming into my Claude subscription's usage limits, and the workload didn't feel heavy enough to explain it. The culprit was allocation, not volume: my main session ran on the most capable model available, and that model was also doing the grep runs, the batch edits, and the yes/no verification passes. Flagship reasoning, billed at flagship rates, spent on work a model a tenth the price does identically well. 🧪 Tested with Claude Code 2.1.x · macOS Where the tokens actually go # Two things surprised me when I looked at my consumption honestly.