โ Found a wild token hack that only works properly on Fable 5.
Claude charges image tokens by pixel size, not by how much text is in the image.
So someone built a proxy that renders your context into PNGs before sending it to the API.
Before: 92,000 tokens for a dense tool result
After: 4,761 tokens for the same content as a PNG
End-to-end bill savings: 59-70%.
SWE-bench tasks: same completion rate, half the cost.
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@Dimillian I recon at the point where agents write most of the code it would be more efficient to agree on the RFC/Proposal stage? And if you already have proper guard rails in the codebase it should be fine
@mattpocockuk: "Bad code is the most expensive it's ever been"
Could not agree more! The best thing you can do as a software engineer right now is double down on software fundamentals.