#dev #shakespeare
Cline seems to generate less input tokens than shakespeare.
Also shakespeare seems to always just increase the input token count.
These 2 seems to make costs higher using shakespeare.
Shakespeare is cool, but would not yet suggest it. Could be frightening that costs just increase with every request.
Otherwise the idea as damn good. Good job!
My 2 sats.
Probably noone cares, but anyway 🤙
Haven’t used either yet, but keen to, so thanks for sharing your experience!
Plus Claude Opus seems to oneshot better, than Claude Sonnet, but shakespeare + opus combo took me off life 😂
Unfortunately, everytime I tried shakespeare, it was a bit expensive for my taste. But it definitely improved between 2 trials!
im curious what you're trying to build because i've been entire websites for under $25 with Claude Opus 4.5 and Shakespeare.
could you share your prompt that you felt was very expensive?
Experienced similar issue. Once the site was built the costs seems to get consumed quicker. As though it’s trying to send too much history in the context or something.
Exactly! Starting a new chat seems a mitigating solution, as nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcmuvweu said above. I also do that.
On the other hand, comparing shakespeare with cline. In cline, I ask it to plan my app, the feature I want, and have in my prompt to give me the assumptions it has and questions.
This gives a big advantage, that I can correct claude already in the design phase, and I dont have to burn precious tokens to find out, that my prompt wasnt detailed enough, or had a bad assumption.
shakespeare has very large system prompt and template to help users build applications. that said, i've been entire websites for just a few dollars. you can't really get any cheaper than that. to keep costs dow, i recommend that you create new context windows by creating new chats from time to time, after you've implemented a feature, etc.
Thanks! Thats a great advice. I use that with cline. Also used with shakespeare.
Have you thought about a planning phase in shakespeare?
