Cut Claude usage by ~85% in a job search pipeline (16k → 900 tokens/app) — here’s what worked

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Like many here, I kept running into Claude usage limits when building anything non-trivial. I was working with a job search automation pipeline (based on the Career-Ops project), and the naive flow was burning ~16k tokens per application — completely unsustainable. So I spent some time reworking it with a focus on token efficiency as a first-class concern, not an afterthought. 🚀 Results ~85% reduction in token usage ~900 tokens per application Most repeated context calls eliminated Much more ...

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Originally published on April 08, 2026. Curated by AI News.

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