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I taught Claude to talk like a caveman to save my AI tokens. It became unusable — and I learned a lesson about virality.
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A user experimented with instructing Claude AI to use simplified 'caveman' language to reduce token usage costs, but found the output quality degraded significantly. The story explores the trade-offs between cost optimization and functionality, prompted by the author's viral Reddit post about the experiment.
I taught Claude to talk like a caveman to save my AI tokens. It became unusable — and I learned a lesson about virality.
Alexander Huso taught Claude to talk like a caveman to save on output tokens.
Alexander Huso
Alexander Huso taught Claude to talk like a caveman to save the tokens from his Pro plan.
While it saved some tokens, Huso said the resulting quality was poor. "I wouldn't trust it to write any serious code," he said.
Then Huso posted it on Reddit, where he learned a lesson about going viral online.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alexander Huso, a 31-year-old who lives in Salt La
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