I've yet to see Anthropic promote any sort of token optimization strategy to its users - they always assume we all have infinite inference.
"No bread? Let them eat cake!"
"No bread? Let them eat cake!"
To me it feels like a worse experience, and they probably feel it too, but it makes sense from an optimization perspective. I've probably learned some shell tricks, but also going blind from watching Claude try dozens of variations of some multi-line chained and piped wall of bash nightmare, instead of just reading a few files.
Also: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-us...
It also gives tips on reducing context size when you run /context .
Presumably they are actually starting to feel the pinch on inference costs themselves with what still feels like a fairly generous max plan.