i started talking to Claude like a caveman. my credits lasted 3x longer. i'm not joking.

Discovered this by accident while trying to stretch my free tier. was burning through messages embarrassingly fast. long prompts. detailed context. full sentences. please and thank you. the whole thing. then one day i was tired and just typed: "fix bug. line 47. null error." it fixed it. same quality. one fifth of the tokens. i sat there staring at it like i'd discovered fire. the caveman theory in one sentence: Claude is not your colleague. it does not need pleasantries. it does not need full sentences. it needs information. just information. nothing else.