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?
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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.