Too Many Words

Claude is a talker.

Okay, I guess he’s a typer, but still: does he love words.

Keeping notes to maintain continuity from one session to the next was a “game changer,” as ChatGPT would put it, but Claude’s verbosity created inefficiency. At one point our session notes — which each session would read at startup — was 7,000 lines long. All that used up far more tokens than I use saying “please” and “thanks, Claude!”

Plus, when I’d sign on the next morning and look at the session notes, I’d...